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

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...singers negotiated their associations of Sacred Harp singing with place. Lauren Bock, 196-86, Gdansk Airport, Poland, 2012. The song on page 196 in The Sacred Harp is titled "Alabama"; the...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...dados [The cowboy smugglers, Dice game], ca. 1890–1910. Etching by José Guadalupe Posada. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.03448. In the late nineteenth century, before...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...intellectually exciting again. If Miller is right, then both popular and scholarly conceptions of "Southernness" since at least the second decade of the twentieth century owe as much to minstrelsy...

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...

Anniversary

Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...mist her hair with her "Big Sexy Hair" spray, and drive us five minutes to school before heading to the office and further patients to visit and administrative duties to...