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

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...Me Kansas City Looking for My Woman Mean Mistreater My Baby Going to Leave Record All Day Sail On, Little Girl V-8 Ford When I’m Sober, When I’m Drunk Blues...

How I Shed My Skin

...white person I have spoken to about this time [said] 'We were not allowed to use the word "nigger" in my family.' One should remember," Grimsley instructs, "that most Southern...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....

Failed Memory Exercise

The water tank above the trees, and then the town, Lord God, the sudden, blunt, exhilarating shock Of pavement against the chert of the bottom road, Bare schoolyard, white clinic,...

The Chesapeake Bay

...evidence complements the record. Recent environmental histories of the region stress the interrelationship between human settlement and activity and environmental systems and processes. Liam Gumley. Chesapeake Bay, Space Science and...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...so intense that they are forced to acknowledge their impotence."7Katz, 57.  It is the realization of this powerlessness that, in turn, becomes curative. Katz concludes: "Potency is the Lord's —...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...in nearby Wellford. This gift was not named in Narcissa's will, so it may have been presented before the maker's death in 1881. History: The Parlor Mid-nineteenth-century homes included a...