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

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...frequency with which houses go unfinished or unutilized, as Americans go homeless. (top left) Connections; (top middle) Decommissioned flooring, moulding, railing, siding, and plain pickets; (top right) Abandoned frame for...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers.  Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...

Local Color

...often used dialect to achieve less patronizing, more flexible versions of life in community. African American men and women also wrote about a racialized social politics (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Paul...

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...for attendance, brought together an unprecedentedly international group of Sacred Harp singers, and served as revelatory and emotionally overwhelming experiences to attendees. These events also served as sites around which...

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...

Remnants of Flannery

Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...

Work

...facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education...