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

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

Editors

...Father, and the Making of an American Icon (Basic Books, 2018); Strom Thurmond's America (Hill & Wang, 2012); and In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton University Press, 2007),...

Nigger Street 1937

...late-staying patrons     early in country churches on Sunday mornings     and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together    ...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

As sung by Cas Wallin, Madison County, North Carolina When I first come to this country in eighteen and forty nine I saw many fair lovers, but I never saw...

When the Border Crossed Me

...extended family nearby. Interns hadn't yet started searching for opportunities on farms. I was doing most everything alone, and there just weren't enough hours of sunlight to get all of...

Darkly

...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...