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

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...

#598, Common Meter

...And here my spirit waiting stands,    Till God shall bid it fly.   3) ‘Tis he, by his almighty grace    That forms thee fit for heaven:    And...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...

Roadside Architecture

...my interest. When I first arrived at the University of Mississippi in 1999, after sixteen years in Texas, I felt a pressing need to explore my new surroundings, both locally...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...