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

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...

Place, Time, and Memory

...rural landscape, the effects of time's passage upon the material world, the hubris of monumentality, and the fatal attractions of evil. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Christenberry lived...

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...engage in oral or anal sex in fourteen states and Michigan was caught doing special "sting" operations targeting gay men in 2011. In other sodomy news, Virginia Attorney General and...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...understandings of citizenship and empire, as well as racial and class privilege. Mckiernan-González's work considers the medical politics of place, and the ways responses to epidemics reveal societal understandings of...

Whiskey and Geography

...Wood, Jr., From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998), 33. Corn...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...Coke is an award-winning poet and author of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese ancestry. Her poetry ranges from North Carolina where she worked in tobacco fields, to California where she worked...

The Morning with Many Tongues

...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...