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

Dirty Little Story

...We are lucky to get back to the dock. I chance to remember a Tennessee Valley Authority beach on this beautiful lake called Pickwick. You can get there by land....

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...late-nineteenth century, bandannas manufactured in American factories were ubiquitous. They remain among the most widely recognized textile products. Among the cotton mills of Spartanburg County, the Clifton Manufacturing Company produced...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...definition. Most people view archives as the special, almost private, playland of scholars and intellectuals—scholars who essentially critique art and other forms of historical, political, social and cultural production or...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...century, the Italian-born French explorer Verrazano marveled at “la ‘mousse espagnole’” hanging in tree branches along the Carolina coast. But it has taken almost five hundred years for serious environmental...

Residues of Border Control

...Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Mississippi figure among the top ten states. Immigrants from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America constitute approximately 53% of the...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...and light specific, and also frost and winter sleep, conditions of particular year, as every instance comes just once with mix of mineral and grease, what Hopkins chose to call...