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

Deep Ellum Blues

...Ellum Area This hyper-American model of speculative growth has left little room for the old, at least until very recently. For such a young city, the new becomes the old,...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...of collective identities in the service of an ethical politics, see Critchley, Infinitely Demanding. I have especially learned from David Whisnant's "Developments in the Appalachian Identity Movement," which though published...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...to vaccine hesitancy, a Pew Report shows us that most Americans who go to religious services say they would trust their clergy's advice on COVID-19 vaccines. Some advocates of public health...

Quilting Conversation

Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...African American art, see Rachel Farebrother's The Collage Aesthetic in the Harlem Renaissance (London: Ashgate, 2009). Toomer claimed that he was a "new American," and wanted to be true to...