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

And the Prize Goes to...

...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...

Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography

...prefer square, wooden buildings such as rural churches and schoolhouses. The pastoral lyrics provide continuity between many participants' rural experience and the image of heaven the songs describe. And, although...

Religion and the US South

...This happened in the South also in places like New Orleans and Savannah, but in most places the rural nature of southern life gave a peculiar character to the Catholic...

A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave

...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...

Mississippi: State of Confession

..."the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom." Simply put, white Protestantism was not a strong force in the attempt to keep African Americans under the rule of...