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

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...settled in the rapidly growing city of El Paso in 1909. El Paso, Texas, ca. 1910. Postcard photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library, Real...

Sapelo Island Flyover

Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...broken mouth. A sleep curls there till the righteous sounds emerge.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 1 April...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...trans—live in a world shaped by the queer past. Front page of the March 1985 issue of Skip Two Periods, Roanoke, Virginia. This quarterly newsletter was published by the Roanoke-based...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...