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

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...talk and some action regarding returning land. Various organizations have held public meetings to elicit policies directly from citizens. Even Congress is thinking along these lines. In 2016, Representative Harold...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...to mark the quilting lines remains visible, an indication that the quilt has never been washed. The information handed down by Mary Black is not specific about who made this...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...1965; "Tan Voters Underwent Hardships: Many Waited In Lines for Hours; Some Didn't Wait," New Journal and Guide, May 14, 1966, 9; Francis X. Walter, "The May 3rd Primary In...

Mississippi Delta

...with their financial resources enabling frequent travel, elaborate parties and dances, tasteful decoration of homes, the best food and drink, and education of children at fine schools and colleges across...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...Map by John Scoles. Originally published in John Low's A New and Complete Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 64. Courtesy of the University of Georgia Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, hmap.libs.uga.edu/hmap/view?docId=hmap/hmap1810g4.xml. The age...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...“Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” its title taken from the last lines of Langston Hughes' poem, “Dream Variations.” This series of photos explores landscapes near Lake Erie in Ohio and Canada...

The Liminal Site

...site is thus classically liminal, on the threshold between city and forest, automobile grid and curving mountainside. Deranged by the mountain, parallel grid lines converge here: below our house, Twenty-second...