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

Love and Death at Second-Line

...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...one of its recommended automobile tours and not feel so much as three minutes behind the times. Antique Shops, Royal Street, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans. Nationwide the...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...information—not a diary or journal or letter, not even a mention of them in anything but official records like deeds, probate files, and court minutes. Many of the gravestones they...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...minute 29:33. Several major research projects have come to the fore around the Georgetown history. First, the Georgetown Slavery Archive (slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu, herein abbreviated GSA) is a repository of archival materials...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...

Genres of Southern Literature

Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...