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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—November 29, 2012

...The border between the two states was drawn significantly farther to the north (beginning on the coast at Cape Fear) than the colonial border of 1746 represented above in which...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...song on page 86, "Poland." This fortuitous image, spotted on the side of a taxi at the Gdansk airport signified for disembarking singers both the physical distance some of them...

LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72

...from the mid-nineteenth century by artists from America, Africa, and the Caribbean,"5"About Us," Hammonds House Museum. http://www.hammondshouse.org/about-us.html.  Sipp draws inspiration from Gallery 72’s design and history. Though the gallery's glass walls...

Nigger Street 1937

McIntosh Street the sign reads like the apple     red but not red delicious red     but red like redeye gravy on grits at Gus's or red like stoplights but...

California Creek, North Carolina

...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...

Mars Hill, North Carolina

New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...Caribbean, were part of a significant religious movement, a fact that a cursory check of the local black press would have revealed. Readers need to approach these sections of the...