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

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...summer to autumn. Tree limbs refuse to stand upright, but bend inward from left and right, curving into an asymmetrical spiral of light, shadow, and texture. There is some semblance...

Montgomery, Alabama images

Montgomery, Alabama: Intersection of Bibb and Commerce Streets Confederate Memorial, Alabama State Capitol Grounds The house in which Jefferson Davis and his family lived in is now preserved as "the...

Piedmont Blues

Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of  James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...used a wide range of place names to refer to Sacred Harp singing's source. For many, "southern" sufficed as a term with the capacity to both generalize Sacred Harp singing's...

Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937

...Pierce, Florida in 1937. Arthur Rothstein. Packing fruit in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002342-M5....

Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins

Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...

Welcome!

...new cultural non-profit collecting 78rpm records, to the use of Confederate flags at Croatian soccer games, we will present short, scholarly posts about subjects that engage with southern spaces. Provide...