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

Residues of Border Control

...found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers’ DNA. The portrayal of everyday objects...

Bodies and Souls

...rural clinics affected everyday lives. Top, a patient has her blood pressure taken at the clinic in Jonestown, Bodies and Souls, 2005. Bottom, Sister Manette with a patient, Bodies and Souls,...

Gone With the Wind

...the pines, which are not there anymore. It would be Sunday, and he would wait for the rooster to crow over the screen door's creaking. It would be Sunday, and...

The Change

...for days through thirty acres   and chopped them out with hoes. Hoes,   made long before   from wood and steel and sometimes (even longer ago) from wood and...

Work

...life. But fate may lead you down a surprising path. One day you may wake up and find you had more choices than you knew. You leave your bed, your...

Substantiation

...one, hat pulled down, right behind. Three days later, the bluesman says, a plague of starlings gathered into little boys those who fished and found the dead man's foot. The...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...the only Gullah-Geechee population on any Georgia barrier island, reside today in the Hog Hammock community. Although shrinking in size, Hog Hammock retains a distinctive culture and features a revival...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...