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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

...Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades, an affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. All images and quotes are from the original field books, which are located in the following archives...

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

...lights had come up at last in the room which is not here anymore where the last train runs again through the miniature town, past the old brick courthouse, its...