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

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...Martin's estate, although there are a number of notices for equity court-decreed sales of land and real estate associated with Martin's holdings. If the sale took place in 1853, the...

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...

The Liminal Site

...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University where he directs the MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts. For fifteen years he was director of the Center for Documentary...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...to 2003. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, I moved to Arkansas in 2003, where I taught high school for two years in the Mississippi Delta, the eastern part of the state....

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...just not made for Thompson's approach or book—flit's not my lit.  About the Author Tom Rankin is director of the Center for Documentary Studies and associate professor of the Practice...