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

Sonic Zora in Florida

..."Ironically," Kennedy adds, "the typist at the Negro Unit" in Jacksonville "was paid $5.00 per month more than Zora, by virtue of a higher urban wage scale." Stetson Kennedy, "Alan...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...on an eerie beauty in Misrach's spectacular landscapes. In photographs of human habitat, they have a more sinister aspect—outsized in comparison to modest homes; implicated in the desolation of an...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...Southern mills produced primarily plain fabrics for most of the nineteenth century. The shirting Mary chose to back her quilt was a finer and comparatively more expensive fabric than the...

"Aint that Something?"

...more than five hundred mountains, encompassing more than one million acres of central and southern Appalachia" (Appalachian Voices). The mining has not only destroyed mountains and diverse forests, but ruined...

Mississippi Delta

...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...