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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism

...over-representation of African American communities, creole New Orleans, and Appalachia. This "amalgamation of fringe spaces" contained, in Hardwig's words, "many pockets of life that seemed exceptionally foreign to the national...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...extreme government overreach. Republicans and Libertarians have called repeatedly and loudly for "personal freedom" to be prioritized over public safety. Before the Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration's vaccine-or-test requirement for...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...promoted as a safe alternative to the existing road and as an economic boon to the area. Old US Route 19-23 was a steep, winding, unimproved two-lane shared by school...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career. Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at...