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

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...print designating the bed from which oysters were harvested, rather than a tag lumping all together as from the Gulf, for one night the oysters stopped being generic. The Texas...

Bodies and Souls

...school, I decided to return home to Mississippi and approach the topic of rural healthcare. I grew up in Canton, Mississippi—a few hours drive from Jonestown. My first film, Waking in...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...their introduction, the editors warn against using the term "lynching" to describe all acts of mob violence, thereby erasing historical context and making claims for "a universal human behavior that...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...Family enclosure at Waxhaw Presbyterian Church. The front of this memorial is engraved with an armorial design, a portrait of the minister in his pulpit, and a capsule biography: He...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...historic designation.6Letter from Ann Zito Hooper, of the Calhoun County Grant Office, to Georgia Calhoun, November 25, 2003.  "The exact spot is no longer there," said JSU's Pete Conroy in...

The Shenandoah Valley

...quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea." The Valley's natural resources,...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long. I've also been listening to some music that's helping me adapt to this new world we're in: "World of Strange Design"...