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

August, 1959: Morning Service

...like churned butter, my eyes closed, freed my mind into the light on the window’s other side, followed the dreamy bell-ring of Randy Ford's cows across Licklog Creek to a...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...Jim Crow provinces, with the latter often refusing to budge. The Mississippi guide described the typical black inhabitant as "a genial mass of remarkable qualities…carefree and shrewd....As for the Negro...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...novel. For a powerfully written and argued history of the role of violence and force in the abolitionist movement, read Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...non-fiction. Pratt has also received a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award from the Fund for Free Expression and a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts....

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....