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

Old Elementary

...all but vagrant pigeons. The utter childlessness of the playground fronts it, lifeless swings, foot worn furrows beneath, once slick from use, almost closed over, a cicatrix of dandelions and...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...southwestern humor is an energetic process that destabilizes as well as it demarcates regionality. The South is seen as a moving target, progressing continuously into uncharted frontier territory, its center...

Local Color

...favored peculiarity, racial difference. Frontispiece from Sherwin Bonner's Dialect Tales Southern white writers, both men and women, found local color fiction a convenient tool for the expression of racial paternalism....

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...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...survey, they had a discrete number of questions that they asked across different neighborhoods, they made a map of it—this was exactly what we’d do with structured data, and they’d...