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

Place, Time, and Memory

Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Local histories, inflected by what Dolores Hayden terms "the power of place," also shaped the political process that led to displacement and redevelopment.7Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...films that address the legacy of chattel slavery across landscapes in Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio. Left, Sugarcane II, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...has absorbed them, is using them, and will build upon them. In some places, social change comes in the volcanic eruption of revolution, while in academia change generally comes from...

The Crowd He Becomes

...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...

Deep Ellum Blues

...has been a place where products are financed, brokered, and transported: leather and buffalo hides in the first place, followed by cotton and oil, clothing and technology. In fact, as...

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...