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

When the Border Crossed Me

Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

Country Music Scholar

Video Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the...

Chattanooga, Tennessee images

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...

Frank Willis

...friend Jennifer said so, never went to the Jefferson Memorial, climbed the stone rhino at the Smithsonian, cursed tourists, took exquisite phone messages for my father, a race man, who...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...House Museum.1Miriam Denard, phone interview with author, January 15th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author Donnie sings in the courtyard, Atlanta, Georgia, July 12, 2015. Photograph by Clint Fluker. Courtesy of...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...and inspiration, realizing that they were creating something that other people wanted to experience.1Aku Kadogo, phone interview with author, March 10th, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. The students' performances...