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

Quilting Conversation

...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...stereotypes than medical knowledge. Irish immigrants brought cholera, while Jewish ones infected New Yorkers with typhus. Riots erupted as a result of perceptions that Chinese men spread venereal disease. These...

A City Divided

...City Divided Located just east of Atlanta's central business district in the city's lower Fourth Ward, Jackson Hill housed white New South entrepreneurs and an emerging middle and upper class....

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...