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

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Asphalt manufacturing facility erected on site of I-26 with Buckner Gap in background, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drainage...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...It coated everything. The trees around us looked like they'd been sprinkled with confectioner's sugar." "So people left," Lydde said. "Bought out by the coal company. Everyone except John. He...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Howell Homes, center, Techwood Homes, left, Georgia Institute of Technology, bottom. Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940. Photocopy of photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,63--2. View of playground...

How I Shed My Skin

...inferiority, castigating blacks as lazy, ugly, smelly, dirty, sloppy, unruly, faulty, sorry. Seemingly told in jest, they united whites around racist ideology. "When we laughed at the joke[s], we accepted...