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

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...go. This is our monster, too.  About the Author Grace Elizabeth Hale teaches cultural history and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness:...

The Dirt Eaters

...famili ar as the smell of dirt.   Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...Jennifer Rae Greeson is associate professor of English at University of Virginia. Her publications include Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)....

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...inverting it as a pair of West Virginians try to repair their new vacation home in the mountains and are repeatedly harassed by a group of college kids convinced that...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...

1108 Dynamite Hill

Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265&amp Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...