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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“I myself am from Texas,” writes a child, “though my mother was from Mexico, and my grandmother from the Yucatán, I am proud to be third generation to travel great...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...