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

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...

Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood

...but must it be Annie?5Eve Tushnet, "The Boy is the Father of Whatever: Richard Linklater's Boyhood," The American Conservative, July 18, 2014, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-boy-is-the-father-of-whatever-richard-linklaters-boyhood. Mason Jr. certainly isn't Hamlet, but the...

"Aint that Something?"

...cultural traditions that range from quilts and handmade crafts to moonshining and snake handling" (3). But perhaps as we move into the twenty-first century, the many complicated, rich, and diverse...

Mississippi Delta

...for land ownership during Reconstruction and asserted their political rights in the Delta, and even with the restriction of political rights at the end of Reconstruction, African Americans continued coming...