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

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...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...no place. "Mississippi has two cities," said Faulkner, "Memphis and New Orleans." Upriver, the Vienna of the Delta is Clarksdale. We looked for easy sevenths and found a covered wagon...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

  "Paul's Crazy Quilt-center pieced by Rosa Benson Snoddy during Civil War. Auntie made the rest of it. Quilted by her, Cousin Mag & Auntie." History: One of Nannie's (Nancy...