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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

...unmarked, natural citizens, the real Americans and Indians, the nation—have done for you.  About the Author Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, and Director, Colonial and Postcolonial Studies...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...people view archives as the special, almost private, playland of scholars and intellectuals—scholars who essentially critique art and other forms of historical, political, social and cultural production or who mine...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...Jones talks with Natasha Trethewey about the subjects of their poetry. The conversation includes: how writers find ways to get beyond their own experiences; psychological exile from regional homeland; Jones's...

Bodies and Souls

...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...

Place, Time, and Memory

...rural landscape, the effects of time's passage upon the material world, the hubris of monumentality, and the fatal attractions of evil. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Christenberry lived...

The Carolina Piedmont

...peoples whose origins, social character, economic interests, and political concerns differed sharply from those of the older coastal societies." Almost all of the Piedmont lies west of a line drawn...

A City Divided

...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...veracity of a particular photograph depicting the factual and emotional truth of a moment, individual photographs are but fleeting slivers of time cropped from a vast historical narrative. This is...