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

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...Kansas and the South while analyzing how Kansans created a "Free State Legend" and made themselves the not-South. Campney insists that too many scholars reduce racist violence to lynching3Campney uses...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...discriminatory treatment of African Americans (and women, Indians, and Hispanics) is richly documented. A pattern emerged across the South in FHA offices during the 1950s and 1960s. Sometimes the supervisor...

How I Shed My Skin

...racist points, over and over, with crude color-coded metaphors. Location of Jones County in North Carolina (top) and location of Pollocksville in Jones County, North Carolina (bottom). Maps by Southern Spaces, 2015. Faithfully reporting...