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

Mapping Souths

...tradition, heritage, culture, and identity. Put another way, we are still reproducing and naturalizing the South as place in an age defined, according to one story (Jameson's postmodern one), by...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

Scarecrow

 "In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand   I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small...

Gone With the Wind

...he would pray for his parents to pass over his sleep on their way to church, the door whining closed behind them. But all that would come later, after the...