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

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...(R-Lineville) plan for redistricting the state's thirty-five Senate districts in the wee hours of Thursday morning. State Democrats—none of whom voted for the bill—have suggested that the Department of Justice...

The Border South

...in 1860 stood at the top of the list in the South in its commitment to slavery. It was the largest slaveholding state in the country with the most slaveholders...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

..."Strange Earth: The Stories of Flannery O'Connor." Georgia Review XII (Summer 1958): 216.  Although some stories — namely, "The Geranium" and "The Artificial Nigger" — take place in cities such as New...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...known for its illusory 3D effect. Titled "Unloading a Cotton Steamboat, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A." (ca. 1890), the stereograph portrays several black men serving as stevedores on the New Orleans docks.3This stereograph is...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...States, as an unmitigated statement intended especially for our colleagues in literary and cultural studies and for those in the multiple disciplines in Africana and related studies. Our message is...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...stark contrast of the two fabrics and the large scale of the triangles results in a very bold quilt, perhaps not a style typically associated with a middle-aged, unmarried woman...