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

Editors

...Jones, University of Richmond Kristin Kant-Byers, Rochester Institute of Technology Peter Kastor, Washington University in St. Louis Anthony E. Kaye, Pennsylvania State University Lovalerie King, Pennsylvania State University Ann Kingsolver,...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...Ruth Jones, County of Philadelphia, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, June 25, 1918. Public record provided by the author. This woman is not among the Ruth Middletons in the 1920 US census—for...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...https://tennesseelookout.com/2024/04/22/tennessees-statewide-school-voucher-bill-dead-but-not-forgotten/. Karen Brooks Harper, “School voucher supporters bask in primary wins, say goals are within reach,” Texas Tribune, Mar. 6, 2024, https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-vouchers-school-choice/; Renzo Downey, “Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...was, it appears, less thorough. Richards, Two Hidden Cemeteries, 29; Mitchell, The History of Mt. Zion United Methodist, 103–118; Kathleen Menzie Lesko, Valerie Babb, Carroll R. Gibbs, Black Georgetown Remembered: A...

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

...Vice, April 13, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/aemwqg/s-town-and-the-loneliness-of-being-gay-in-the-rural-south; Michael A. Lindenberger, "S-Town Humanizes the Haunting Isolation of Gays in Rural America," Dallas Morning News, May 3, 2017, https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/03/john-bs-loneliness-tells-us-homosexual-life-rural-america. ) Olin Long tells of...

Residues of Border Control

...on the US bank of the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas, 2008. Susan Harbage Page, Buried comb, Brownsville, Texas, 2010.   Susan Harbage Page, Argyle sock, Brownsville, Texas, 2007.   The photographs portray...