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

LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72

...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html.  Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Her Early Settlers (New York: Robert Carter, 1846), 193, 218; Eli W. Caruthers, A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D.D. Near Sixty Years Pastor...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...the local militia married Rosa Miller Benson, age twenty-seven. Rosa came from a locally prominent family in the same community. Her grandfather, Robert Benson, migrated to Greenville County, South Carolina,...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...Díaz also adopts many of the categories and characterizations of "criminality" generated by government policing agencies.3The historian Paul Gootenberg calls this "talking like a state," which he believes can be...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...of the critical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia scholarship we seek: Busch, Andrew M. "Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas." Southern Spaces, August 19, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/crossing-over-sustainability-new-urbanism-and-gentrification-austin-texas. Conis, Elena....

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...size of a violation can make a violation go away—that whenever a disparity can be proven to be small, it can be considered no disparity at all. So, if a...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...