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

Brushes with War

...a second lieutenant in the Confederate Engineer Corps, was the grandson of Francis Scott Key.) Veteran museumgoers might never have seen some of the important slavery-related canvases, such as Eastman...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...the country's premier sites for the purchase of fat hogs, ready for slaughter. But as the pork industry integrated vertically, fewer local farmers bred pigs, and eventually the auction house...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...South and North Carolina, and East and West Florida. Allewaert acutely observes that Bartram's illustrations and travel notes demonstrate the entanglement of human subjects "with the lowland as pleasurable loss...

Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19

...device, you’ll need to click the upward-facing arrow next to “10 Items” to reveal hotspots. Introduction In many ways, artists are first responders—to repurpose a term often used in public...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...p.m. -  Arrive at the farm house of Barney Hester, 2932 Hester Town Road. (This is where the altercation occurred leading to the arrest of Roger Malcom, Sunday, July 14, 1946.) 5...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...in Mexico displays the predictable symptoms of previous drug wars from Southeast Asia to Colombia, including law enforcement's preoccupation with "kingpins," a strong government preference for criminal justice and military...