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

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...

The Chimney

...will think of him, long ago pulling the penny from his pocket and pressing it against the drying chimney, leaving his long thumbprint swirling.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...into and out of Virginia pre-dated and paralleled the early colonists'. Pocohontas, for example, was preparing to return to Virginia when she died in England. Had she lived longer, her pattern...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...Many customers bring their own Crown Royal, which is acceptable as long as they buy mixers. By ten o’clock, although the lounge grows smoky and raucous, a code of behavior...

How I Shed My Skin

Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...

Scarecrow

...cling to your journey — A long walk on yellow brick, two taps From a wizard's wand. I like to think Of these cornrows as a kind of maze, Imagine...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...1939. Photographic negative by Marion Post Wolcott. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-052257-D. In the last decade, Eggleston's sensibility has become wildly...