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

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...to national and transnational trade: "It has always been exceedingly difficult to ascertain the exact number of slaves in the Southern states; the usual estimate is about four and a...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...was made of richer materials and included the piano for entertaining guests. The cozier sitting room was used by the family for reading and sewing. Compared with the Evins estate,...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...includes transcripts and rich metadata for easy querying of the approximately 2400 ads. Additonally, project staff have provided some brief historical context for researchers. Samantha Winer, a digitization and transcription assistant, writes...

Residues of Border Control

...merely safe might prefer to ignore. –Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 7 Susan Harbage Page photographs objects found at the international border (objects trouvés), in the Rio...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...many new insights. In large part, the book's shortcomings stem from an overreliance on rigid and unyielding categories: in allowing those categories to do much of his critical work, Pargas...