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

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...This year's reenactment, occuring later this month, will be filmed for the documentary Always In Season by San Francisco-based filmaker Jacqueline Olive. Below is the flyer for the event, organized by Cassandra Greene and the Georgia...

The Bulletin—May 15, 2012

...of the case and how local groups and United States Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) have rallied around Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old construction and landscape worker from rural Ridgeland, South Carolina....

Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism

Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...

Seneca Quarry

...lay right along the C&O Canal, which was frequently targeted by Confederates. In 1866, John P. C. Peter's son Thomas sold the quarry and adjacent farm to the Seneca Sandstone...

Bodies and Souls

...in San Francisco, California, where she works in independent film and online media. Herring began making films after graduating from Duke University. There, she collaborated with Andre Robinson in producing and directing...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...TV. "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" sings native Arkansan Dan Hicks in his tongue-in-cheek classic. As someone continually and deeply interested in individual stories, personal...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...Georgia so she can tell her friends back in Minnesota she has been in two states at the same time. She kicks off her sandals and enters, the water so...