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

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...Imam Hussein Obama. . . . Imam Barack Hoover Obama is the correct nomenclature." However, says Limbaugh, the number of Americans who believe he is Muslim is increasing: "Imam Obama...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...demands. Besides trade unions and groups organized around socio-economic issues, we find people involved in a variety of feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and LGBTQ+ struggles. In ordinary circumstances, they generally insist...

Writing Appalachia

...of Appalachian literature that is comprehensive, reflects contemporary ideas about authorship and Appalachia, and brings readers well into the twenty-first century. That is what this book attempts to do. In...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...control in our country," President Donald Trump claimed without justification in February 2020.7"Trump Says Coronavirus Is 'Very Well Under Control' in U.S.," Bloomberg, February 25, 2020, Video, 1:26, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-02-25/trump-says-coronavirus-is-very-well-under-control-in-u-s-video. When...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...the 1860s as a technique for silk patchwork, but it quickly achieved wide popularity and was reproduced in cottons and woolens as well. Quilters of later generations incorrectly assumed from...