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

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...social life—both permanently displacing vulnerable communities and enabling all of us to pursue our particular visions of prosperity. Orff's section on "Infrastructure" is a particular contribution, making visible the pipelines,...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...Printed cottons were plentiful and popular during the 1870s and 1880s. New England textile mills produced a wide variety of prints to supply consumers' desires for novelty. Small-figured dress prints...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...never lost its original popularity as a pleasure ride. The line was soon increased in extent and branches were built to the Piedmont exposition grounds and other points of interest...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...Times," http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/pigford/Response%20to%20Pigford%20NYTimes%20Coverage[2].pdf; Ralph Paige and Rachel Slocum, "Letters: Bias and a Settlement With Black Farmers," The New York Times, May 3, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/bias-and-a-settlement-with-black-farmers.html. Even after black farmers won their case...

The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey

...refuse the concept of the postracial in and for a post-emancipation society."3Coleman Hutchison, "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism," Southern Spaces, December 25, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/three-poems-and-critique-postracialism. Former Southern Spaces managing...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...local flavor, a bacchanalia fitting the surrounding party. Kelly Yandell, Elm Grove oysters, Galveston, Texas, 2011. Mad Island, Elm Grove, Todd’s Dump, Possum Pass, Bayou Cook, Pepper Grove, and Ladies...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...and Last Objects, Left on Porch of Evacuated House address particular issues of loss—the loss of a place to worship and pray; the loss of a place to socialize, drink,...