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

"Aint that Something?"

...comfort for Dawn, and it's deeply tied to her family—it's impossible to separate the two. Most of Dawn's family lives in the region, but don't offer much stability—a ragged bunch...

Substantiation

...cup of names. He wires his paper that he's gone catfish fishing on the Tallahatchie, that he won't be coming home. * The defense says Till's alive and well on...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...and northeast Georgia. Atlanta in 1864 When the Union occupation of Atlanta began in early September 1864, fewer than three thousand civilian inhabitants lived in the city, a sharp drop...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...infant corpses and live human organ trafficking (141–144). Díaz, who teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, calls this the "black legend" of the border. These grotesqueries are part of...

Roadside Architecture

...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...The second is the belief that money corrupts the poor but elevates the moral character of the rich. By making the lives of the poor, the working class, and the...