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

And the Prize Goes to...

...its contest winner. Journals used in Engelhardt's class, courtesy of the author. Throughout the semester, the class read one to two books weekly (all published after 2010), working collaboratively to...

Editors

...the South, 1890–1940 (Vintage, 1999), A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Cool Town: Music,...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...week, all Duke classes would move on line, and with that began a collective retreat into the virtual and isolated refuge of distance. We would stay at six feet and...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...sold only cattle—as many as three thousand steers a day from up to a hundred miles away. As business dwindled—and only months after I documented it in 2009—Simpkins decided to...

How I Shed My Skin

...Algonquin Books.  The transformations from sixth to seventh grade, from lackadaisical Mr. Vaughn's class to the precise Mrs. Ferguson, from foe to friend of black classmates, helped expose southern white...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...and arrogant statement of inherited privilege. Instead, I will conclude by referring to a much more polite intervention that nevertheless re-states the dominant upper-caste and upper-class belief in the appropriate...