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

Sea Changes in Personhood

...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...

The Black Belt

...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...

Residues of Border Control

...clothes and personal objects and the repeated transit through the “safest” pathways. Immigrants who cross the river must change into dry clothes once they arrive on the northern side, to...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...six-pointed star pieced by hand from small fabric diamonds, a pattern that certainly predates the Civil War. However, the dyes that produced the red-brown and blue-green pieces in Rosa's pieced...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...