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

Brass Knuckles

...didn't like the look on that ol' nigger's face.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...

Junction City newspaper

...Kansas, at least, does not want them, and, indeed, cannot support them. The conviction is growing everywhere, that if the movement continues, the north must use shot-guns in self defense."...

Belle plaine newspaper

...than in Alabama and may wait till he gets out of Kansas before being to[o] hasty again."   Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

A few months ago, my husband and I moved from rural Arkansas to the great Atlanta sprawl and settled in Druid Hills, a neighborhood within walking distance of Emory University's...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Bottom, Soybean field, Crittenden County, Arkansas, August 3, 2013. Photograph by Thomas R. Machnitzki....

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

Introduction Artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan designed Prop Master: An Installation specifically for the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art. In its totality, Prop Master constitutes...

Inside Poor Monkey's

Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...department of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is author of This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2015)....

Watching the Surface for a Sign

Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...