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

Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology

...capital to enhance economic opportunities and improved life chances for all Memphians. North America's Distribution Center Today, the city's most recognizable symbol of the global economy is Federal Express, headquartered...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...