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

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...who gave to the leaves of one yew the names of his own dead. Anyway the only spirits I can call in this place are the stench of a possum...

Chattahoochee (excerpt)

...cover thee? — Job 38: 33-34 1 Like a spirit moving through the flower of moonlight hanging in the water, through the depth that never warms where carp and catfish...

Quilting Conversation

...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...& Views from a Few Spirited Georgia Democrats" declared that the poll is important because Atlanta elections are typically decided by Middle Atlanta, with its "multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ideology, and multi-partisan" makeup....

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...musicians performed various "racialized sounds," songs and styles understood, often wrongly, as originating among either blacks or whites. In this way of thinking, minstrelsy and spirituals were black sounds, string...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...March, and gave rise to the national clamor that assured the Voting Rights Act became law. Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965. Since 1965, the Edmund...