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

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...by Cynthia Scott. © Cynthia Scott. Mann was on vacation when the storm struck on August 29, 2005, so, like viewers all over the world, he watched television coverage of...

The Shenandoah Valley

...the mountains west and north. In part because of its heavy settlement from Pennsylvania, the Valley has been called "a world between," or the "third South," part of middle America,...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006). Although competing cities grasped the implications of this...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...Eggleston is the World's Greatest Photographer," The Independent, April 22, 2013, accessed June 26, 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/genius-in-colour-why-william-eggleston-is-the-worlds-greatest-photographer-8577202.html What Glover missed, however, was that this attention to the everyday and the ordinary...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...