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

The State House Aflame 1833

...Sam and his issue yet know. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water… We cannot pass in silence over the exemplary conduct of...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...middle and place one food in South Carolina and one in Georgia so she can tell her friends back in Minnesota she has been in two states at the same...

Glocal Lounge

...material process that is narrated and imagined differently depending on an individual’s—and a community’s—spatial location and position. In her important study, Critical Regionalism and Cultural Studies (1996), the literary scholar...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...the fruits of your labor. I am the offspring of the movement. When people ask me if I've been to Selma before, I tell them I'm coming home."11Nedra Pickler, "In...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...I-26, 1995: Howard Jenkins:  "The new road, in our opinion, it's going to take traffic away from us even down there at the nearest place to an intersection in this...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...out the many ways in which everyone is implicated in its perpetuation. Seeing that in the book's information-dense but easy-to-grasp format could start the process of visualizing change by enabling...

At Liberty (1964)

Louis Allen, 31 January 1964, Liberty, Mississippi   The morning train is turning like a compass needle now the night has folded all its schedules in the stands of pine...