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

Brass Knuckles

Something so pleasing in their heft it's easy to forget how my grandfather used them in those days when everybody knew he kept a hundred rolled and rubberbanded in the...

A Mess of Poke

...Poke berries turning purple, Decatur, Georgia, 2011. There is a rural-urban divide, however, in the consumption of poke sallet. I wondered if this gap might begin to close with a...

Work

...the machine room. My only factory stint. Never set foot in a towel mill. But that doesn't matter. I dreamed my mother's and grandmother's dreams. Dreams of clatter and snap,...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...to your grandmother and ask her about her grandmother," she pleaded. Indeed, queer history is present in the way my parents reacted when I first came out, as they referenced...

The Dirt Eaters

...it will dis appear al together." Miss Fannie Glass Of Creuger, Miss.: "I wish I had some dirt right now." Her smile famili ar as the smell of dirt.  ...

Julius Hartman

Clipping from an article about Julius Hartman, "A Born Genius," published in the Atlanta Constitution on August 31, 1890: "A Born Genius" "And now [Hartman] is entering the grandest work...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...coal miners. Roughly two thousand people came out to the event, and many stopped to have their picture taken with "the grand old lady of the labor movement." Present were...