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

The Change

...to hold a six pack on ice. In the one hundred, fifteen degree   summer heat   with air   so thick with moisture you drink as you breathe. Before the...

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Jackson, Mississippi images

...business district. Mississippi State Fair Held annually in October, the Mississippi State Fair draws visitors from throughout the South. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...Fifty yards downstream a granite cliff rises two hundred feet into the air to cast this section of river into shadow. She glances back to where her parents and brother...

Stones and Shadows

1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...

Darkly

...in the air where they held a gun on Willie Edwards and told him he could jump. How you'd ask me — Why? so simple it won't tell a thing...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers.  Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Louis Hollis was chair of the deacon board as well as a staffer for the White Citizens' Council and its weekly regional paper the Citizens' Councilor, and several generations of...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...