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

J-Mill on Regulating

...be incorporated with the records' [sic] original lyrics which often changes the whole concept of the song." "The concept of mic checkin' has been and still is widely used by...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...useful to examine the ways home architecture, social relations, and women's needlework intersected during the decade of the 1880s. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...

Montgomery, Alabama images

Montgomery, Alabama: Intersection of Bibb and Commerce Streets Confederate Memorial, Alabama State Capitol Grounds The house in which Jefferson Davis and his family lived in is now preserved as "the...

Piedmont Blues

...Cotten, Elizabeth Libba Cotton (1895-1987) spent her working life in domestic posts, first in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where she was born, and then around Washington, D. C. Her guitar...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...high into the night. * Papers wing through the creosote dim, over Kelly Ingram and Alabama Power, through gold Electra's lightning fists and Linn Park's fountains to the jailhouse where...

The Crowd He Becomes

...the paperboys, ready to throw when the dark is right. See him Christmas, few years back, outside the preacher's house, thin fuse of cigarette, newspaper spread on the bus protests....

Darkly

...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...

Zircon

...stone found in the family dirt's a kind of clock they say, a register of time from the beginning since it traps uranium and other elements decaying at a steady...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...24, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. This first post shares McDaniels's vision of a multi-vocal conversation; between artifact and natural resource, between history and present-day, between historian and community,...