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

Consolation

...pockets like a charm we turn as we walk home again gleaming in the delicate light of the bright, unfalling stars. "Consolation" first appeared in Blackbird and was collected in...

Birmingham, Alabama images

Birmingham, Alabama: Fashion Model, Sloss Furnaces Birmingham's Sloss Furnaces operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. Tourist Photographer, Sixteenth Street Baptist Church On Sunday, September 15,...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...

Brass Knuckles

...pocket of his mackintosh. He drove this big delivery truck, restocking Hersheys and Pall Malls. And the story always shows my father in the back, sorting the endless stacks and...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...proved hollow. Killings-by-police escalated while lynchings declined, allowing the state to wrest control from mobs, effectively diminishing unpredictability while achieving the same repressive purpose. Although Campney might have delved deeper...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

Review In Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande, George T. Díaz addresses the US-Mexico borderland's tawdry reputation, recently refueled by unsubstantiated stories about cocaine packed into...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

...of rebuilding wetlands on the Louisiana coast. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is seeking federal approval for the state's new voter ID law (House Bill 921). Hosemann is in...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...to 2003. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, I moved to Arkansas in 2003, where I taught high school for two years in the Mississippi Delta, the eastern part of the state....