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

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...her deceased husband, and tradition says that Archy Davie, the brother-in-law of Mr. Richardson, pressed her hand down upon it. The afflicted woman could not restrain her tears, but wept...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...Willow, Deer (2004), Dog Road Woman(1997), and The Year of the Rat (1996). Dog Road Woman won the 1998 American Book Award. She has edited eight additional books and is the senior editor of Platte Valley...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...claims clothes were shed by a man and woman wed less than a month, who let hoe and plow handle slip from hands, left rows half done, crossed dark waves...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...to rethink the geography, chronology, and social relations" of lynching practices (7), it does not quite succeed. The best essays examine lynchings and responses to lynchings outside the South, not...