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

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...notion that the history of the South stands separate from that of the rest of the nation, its values disconnected from American ideals.3See, for example, Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...like those gracing many of Charleston's historic homes, imply a Greek temple, symbolizing the culture celebrated by Euro-Americans for its democratic ideals. Ironically, these very columns recall how the forced...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...

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...