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

Brushes with War

...disappeared into the attic of a wealthy New Jersey family whose daughter gave her life in an effort to educate freed slaves on South Carolina's Sea Islands during the so-called...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...anxiously, the former hopeful that Chief John Ross could avert their removal and the latter fearful that the troops and military posts were inadequate for their protection. The future commander...

Birdhouses

...along backroads. Birds live, or have lived, in some of the houses, but not all. Some have sat vacant since they were installed, their builders leaving them as decoration, or...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...in the corner of the room, making small talk in Cajun French even though my "project" tries to avoid nativist ideologies about Louisiana culture.2For instance, the ideologies that promote a...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...providing a fitting remembrance to those who challenged Jim Crow, a monument that would confront segregation's persistent presence and effects. Joseph Postiglione, Freedom Riders' bus after attack in Anniston, Alabama,...