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

Belle plaine newspaper

...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...

Race

Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest of his life, except...

At Cornwall Furnace

Cherokee County, Alabama Blown out just after The War. The stack's granite gapes. Each year saplings try, as gravity has longer, a reclamation masonry won't allow. Lichens and moss do...

Bunk Richardson

Lynching photograph: February 11, 1906: Gadsden, Alabama The rope grips the iron where the iron bites into its hold. A noose of rust, dried blood. The dew has frozen in...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...narrator apologizes, "I should certainly omit such expressions as this, could I do so with historic fidelity." By 1853, Joseph Glover Baldwin presented in Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi...

Birdhouses

...for Academic Affairs at Virginia Military Institute. His publications include Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and three books on Erskine...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...well-written, first-person account of how Mitchell investigated civil rights murders in Mississippi and Alabama and helped bring the perpetrators to justice. Madison Elkins, managing editor: I highly recommend the Southern...

Dirty Little Story

...But I wonder if any of them say more about us.  About the Author A native of Georgia, Rheta Grimsley Johnson grew up in Alabama where she attended Auburn University....

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...on the picker's neck, were emptied into these larger sacks. About the Author A native of Alabama, Candace Waid is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara....