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

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

...eight large crazy-pieced blocks arranged around the central star. Starting in the center of each nineteen-inch foundation square, Nannie worked outward, adding pieces by hand, until the foundation was covered....

Failed Memory Exercise

...the man without a nose Like a pencil point ground to a nub and breaking There against the efflorescence of the barbershop, And stare again into that hole beneath the...

Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920

...streets and shotgun houses—both hallmarks of milltown design—and with the Fulton Mill smokestacks looming mutely in the background, the neighborhood is saturated with remnants of its industrial past. But what...

The Border South

...geopolitics of the sectional crisis. In the eighteenth century the South's borders were not a subject of either concern or observation, and identities were shaped more around states than regions....