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

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...only if they dream in English."1Samuel P. Huntington, "The Hispanic Challenge," Foreign Policy, March 1, 2004, accessed January 4, 2013, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2004/03/01/the_hispanic_challenge. Here, the suggestion goes, as in the case of...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...stubborn resistance of black farmers and their supporters.1Pete Daniel, Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013). The...

The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey

...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

Review Kelly Yandell, Foodways Texas oyster tasting at Gaido's Restaurant, Galveston, Texas, 2011. On a late February Saturday night in Galveston, Texas, I stood shoulder to shoulder with a hundred...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...anniversary of the storm (August 29), but we managed to get pretty close. Todd and I photographed there August 15-17, 2006, while Bruce and I were there September 1-3, 2006....

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...is the author of The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia (Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, 2009), and Sodom Laurel Album (University of North Carolina Press, 2002). Current...