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

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...correlation between flooding and MTR operations. Many of us have witnessed this firsthand. During the devastating floods of the Summer of 2001, I felt helpless as family members and close...

Lafayette, Louisiana images

Lafayette, Louisiana: House on West Vermilion Street This house is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette. Cajun Bail Bonds Lafayette is often called the capital of Acadiana, that...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...Collapsed Building between Gulfport and Biloxi, and Destroyed Condominiums) reflect this awestruck appreciation of nature's power. Some of my other images, however, grow out of an attempt to relate to...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...

A Mess of Poke

.... . salad . . . ungh. So growls Tony Joe White in his 1969 hit, "Polk Salad Annie," about a notorious woman and a ubiquitous weed. Pokeweed, or poke...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....