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

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...the house was." "Valley fill." "A nice word for taking what's left of the top of the mountain and throwing it over the side and covering up the head of...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...states. Gerald Ford of Michigan is the outlier, but he was never elected, only appointed. The prominence of the Sunbelt in the last forty-four years reflected the historic geographical shift...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...academic article, I had to tell an engaging narrative through objects or other visuals. That's often difficult, especially for the earlier period. We reproduced some ordinances, portraits, paintings, and the...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford "'The Room that We're Able to Take Up': Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic" by Eric Solomon and...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...where their titles have coincided with the names of European cities and countries where Sacred Harp singing now occurs. Singers such as Cath Saunt and Fynn Titford-Mock of Norwich in...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...could set a precedent for the handling of other dangerous coal ash-storage facilities in the state.  As we have reported in The Bulletin before, this summer's record-setting drought has wreaked...