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

The US South and the 2008 Election

...from Vernon, Alabama, sitting in his shop surrounded by wood-paneled walls decorated with a deer head and trophy fish. According to one of the article’s quoted experts, the South was...

Brown, Common Meter, 511t

...impressive hour, And lead to endless day. Chorus:   From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17 August 2010 ©...

Belle plaine newspaper

...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...

Race

Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest of his life, except...

At Cornwall Furnace

Cherokee County, Alabama Blown out just after The War. The stack's granite gapes. Each year saplings try, as gravity has longer, a reclamation masonry won't allow. Lichens and moss do...

Bunk Richardson

Lynching photograph: February 11, 1906: Gadsden, Alabama The rope grips the iron where the iron bites into its hold. A noose of rust, dried blood. The dew has frozen in...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...narrator apologizes, "I should certainly omit such expressions as this, could I do so with historic fidelity." By 1853, Joseph Glover Baldwin presented in Flush Times in Alabama and Mississippi...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...