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

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Building No. 2. Atlanta, Georgia, June 1993. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,60D--1. These locally driven agendas document that public housing was not without its problems. Programs...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...bad or as sensationalistic as reported. Although indictments were made, no one was ever convicted for the lynching. Crisis, June 1911, 61. This turn of events was also undoubtedly influenced...

Naming Each Place

Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...at the High in June 2012 during the exhibition, Misrach displayed the trajectory of his life's work, making evident the links between his stark, emotional color photography of Western landscapes...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...

Little Ivy, North Carolina

...the Little Ivy Church Cemetery looking East on US 19, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

J-Mill on Regulating

...Funk DJs and the Sugarhill DJs at block and house parties, as well as in battles against one another." Published: 10 June 2008 © 2008 Matt Miller and Southern Spaces...