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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...accomplished family that includes teachers and a college professor. Photos of their nine children and nineteen grandchildren cover the coffee table in front of them, reflecting family pride, and indexing...

Work

...months between Lejeune and college. After two babies. Worked to the tune of minimum wage, ten-hour days, and culled furniture. Once I went into the deafening grind and buzz of...

Whiskey and Geography

...to Ireland where local residents learned to make liquor (known in Ireland as "potchin") to supplement farm income.  Photo courtesy of the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College. In fact,...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

...Erskine College and an AA degree in Commercial Photography from Randolph Community College. After four years working in Manhattan, Hall returned home to Chester, South Carolina, where she opened Pressly...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...the 1950s came to go to college. “You acclimate to this country,” says Fu, “contribute to it, but also you keep your heritage alive.”   David Hunter Strother, Sketches of...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...had become W. C. Handy's "franchise" of bands, traveling ensembles that played the southern college circuit.2Thadious M. Davis, "From Jazz Syncopation to Blues Elegy: Faulkner's Development of Black Characterizations," in...