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

The Colonialist's Gaze

...and hookworm eradication, see José Amador, "The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico," Southern Spaces, March 30, 2017, https://southernspaces.org/2017/pursuit-health-colonialism-and-hookworm-eradication-puerto-rico. This photograph from 1910 suggests the continuing...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...

The Chesapeake Bay

...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...evenings. Women made frequent visits with relatives, sometimes for several days at a time, and they carried handwork in order to keep their hands occupied during these visits. In southern...