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

Mapping Souths

...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...

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...

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...Solar Initiative" would represent the largest voluntary purchase of solar energy by an investor-owned utility in the country. On September 27, the Arkansas Supreme Court handed down a ruling which...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

.... . . intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that." Though the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws...

Bodies and Souls

...Waking in Mississippi. This sixty-minute video about race relations in her hometown has been shown across the country, including a special screening at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis,...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...Politics of Violence. And finally, Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth. This is a poignant, funny, heart-wrenching story of...