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

The Bulletin—May 8, 2013

...chewing (meaning they cannot bite you), instead sucking nutrients from plant sap. To attract female cicadas, the males of the species congregate in trees to form a deafening chorus that can...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...can run but you can’t hide forever!” America, we must respect and uphold “The Rule of Law.” Directions From Atlanta: Take I-20 East Exit 82 at Conyers-Athens (Highway 138). Turn...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...that trademark blister on Poydras Street that Saints fans call the Superdome. Canal Street has seen its shopping emporiums shut down or decamp for the suburbs, while several Royal Street...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...cast of characters who invented the category of southern music, a significant part of what is called "folk" or "Americana" or "roots" music today and understood as part of the...

Our Backward Revolution

...third-party segregationist candidate George Wallace. He came within a hair’s breadth of losing the election after Wallace captured fourteen million votes and the electoral votes of five southern states. (According...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

...a part of the Callaloo Conference, which we are hosting this year at Emory, an event that would not be possible without our many generous sponsors across campus, the work...