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

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...scholars examined his biography in order to repudiate the paternalistic ideology of slavery that Sterling Stuckey ironically calls "kindhearted supervision." In its anonymity, Logan's silhouette also suggests the innumerable people...

Letter: Blues

...my mother's copper ramekin, A cigar box to keep your letters in. At least the swirl ceilings are very high, And the Super's rummy, sort of sly. I saw a...

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drilling blast holes, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blast supervisor inspecting recent explosion, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...threaten to supersede the people he is trying to represent. Instead of an intricate historical web, the film at times resembles a stockpile of relics. Scientists load the "golden record"...

Birth Right

Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...of it—Cumberland, Jekyll, St. Simons, Sapelo, and St. Catherines—Ossabaw is a composite island, in which sediments from Pleistocene and Holocene shorelines are directly adjacent or superimposed. However, sediments of the...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...powerful addition to any advanced course in environmental history as well as in literature. Superlatives fail to describe David W. Blight's biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), a rich...