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

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...is especially important because laws restricting rights of felons affect nearly a quarter of all African-Americans of voting age in Florida. Georgia Power (a unit of Southern Company, the second...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...and long-lived singing traditions in the US South. First published in 1844 by Georgia compilers B.F. White and E.J. King, the book has been constantly used and occasionally revised. For...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...be "the president of all the people." But most of the people in this seventy-percent African American city demonstrated their solidarity by staying away. "McCain's policies unify us," said lawyer...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...

Rising Up

Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005....

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...fabric than the sheetings that were more often used for quilt backings in South Carolina throughout the nineteenth century. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...in Mexico displays the predictable symptoms of previous drug wars from Southeast Asia to Colombia, including law enforcement's preoccupation with "kingpins," a strong government preference for criminal justice and military...