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

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.)...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...refinanced during the Depression. Redlining Richmond came out of a conversation that I had with a friend and colleague here at the University of Richmond, John Moeser, who is a...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...of the dead to "confine their manifestations to the cemetery," rather than haunting the living. On the grave of a "Mr. Johnsing" (perhaps Henry Johnson, who died in December of 1893)...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...folkies found Avalon, drove to Mississippi, and asked at a general store, "Have you heard of a musician named John Hurt?" "Third road, turn right, house on your left, up...

Dirty Little Story

...yes, I've been to New Jersey. Rheta Grimsley Johnson, Trash on a beach on Pickwick Lake, Fish Trap Hollow, Mississippi, 2012. "Litter" sounds like a McDonald's coffee cup on the...