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

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...still wild yet don’t know enough to be scared so I never am that’s how I got these scars here. Anyway, I follow Sadie she’s about fifty and weighs five...

Geography

...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else.   2. At...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...mine I viewéd all around me, I found I was quite alone And me a poor stranger and a long way from home My true love she won't have me...

Letter: Blues

...And Washington, and you, Love — states away. The clouds are flat. The sky is going grey. I'm fiddling with the juice jug, honey pot, White chrysanthemums that I just...

Anniversary

...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...is how most smuggling worked, and in many ways this is how it still works. Sometimes border people felt they should not have to pay extra for ordinary goods that...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...ways, but it was also often accomplished through overt tactics such as racially restrictive covenants that simply stated 'said property shall not be sold to nor occupied by Negroes, nor...