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

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...Cold Mountain, and has collaborated with pianist Omar Sosa and composer Evan Chambers. He has taught at Dartmouth College, Hampshire College, Amherst College, the University of Minnesota and Smith College....

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...of a national network of what anthropologist St. Clair Drake used to call the "vindicationist school" of black intellectuals. Responding to what I have called the reigning unwisdom of the...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...drink no more bad whiskey.” Now in the August heat, it’s shift change. The whistle hangs in the stiff air. The lake stirs a moment, then is quiet. People slip...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...quilt made a statement about the family's social status. The Bensons could have purchased the chintz locally but it is quite possible that they demonstrated the importance of their eldest...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...of segregation (228). Just as a statue of the Biblical prophet Moses is affixed on the dome of the Jackson, Mississippi, courthouse, the state's religious culture and legal racial apartheid...