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

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...convincing poor whites that enslaving African Americans was in their best interests. Jennison surveys white Georgians' opinions on racial and class divisions to great effect, mining the 1852 and 1853...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...for Culture and Learning is filing preliminary paperwork to have the building added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors renamed the nearby...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...in the so-called annals of history, and that we have to look in unexpected places to find our past. Lesbians in Roanoke in the 1980s devoted an entire issue of...

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...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...in coffee table book format—was thrilling. The contribution of Kate Orff articulates the complex industrial, economic, ecological, and historical problems that inevitably gave rise to the places in Misrach's photographs....

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...