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

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...for use around the campfire, a testament to their love of the music considering the volume’s size and weight. A number of composers less directly involved in the book’s production...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...around Columbus. On weekends, he and his wife Cathy drove within a fifty-mile radius, and, to their great delight, learned that the area was filled with exceptional blues players. "Every...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...also typical of southern quilts of the era in that the blocks are set solidly within a grid of wide fabric strips, called "sashing." She quilted around the edges of...

The Black Belt

The Black Belt Traditional Counties of the Alabama Black Belt.  In the 1820s and 30s, the Black Belt identified a strip of rich, dark, cotton-growing dirt drawing immigrants primarily from...