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

Writing Appalachia

...of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2016802030. That dichotomy—the romanticized and the degenerate—remained operative through the better part of the twentieth century, with few attempts at complicating it. (Horace Kephart,...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...do what it should do: stand between citizens and the power of capital. It is difficult to find anything Appalachians have gained by voting for Republicans. Yet a majority in...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...family in Columbia, South Carolina, and a cluster of black Clifton families between Columbia and the Savannah River—in the Barnwell County townships of Barnwell, Blackville, Bamberg and Diamond Hill, and...