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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

...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...home. It is the kind of place where civil rights activists fear meeting sheriffs and folklorists dream of finding blind blues musicians. Farm Security photographers worked here two decades earlier,...

Single Centers of Creation?

...Black Mountain Salamander Desmognathus quadramaculatus Black-bellied Salamander Pseudotriton ruber schencki Black-chinned Red Salamander Desmognathus orestes Blue Ridge Dusky Salamander Pseudotriton ruber nitidus Blue Ridge Red Salamander Gyrinophilus porphyriticus danielsi* Blue...

Good-Bye to All That?

...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...Bridges. The scale and speed with which the New Orleans waterfront and its adjacent neighborhoods metamorphosized from blue-collar semi-industrial spaces into upper middle class zones occupied by white-collar professionals, tourists,...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...