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

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Asphalt manufacturing facility erected on site of I-26 with Buckner Gap in background, Buckner Gap, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drainage...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...As the black fiddler Howard Armstrong recalled, musicians performing at dances in east Tennessee around 1920 had to be able to perform an eclectic repertory. Because everyone seemed to want...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...It coated everything. The trees around us looked like they'd been sprinkled with confectioner's sugar." "So people left," Lydde said. "Bought out by the coal company. Everyone except John. He...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Artist Repertoire Index

...Greens What’s the Matter with the Mill? Bussey, George Henry (1969) Blues Around My Bed Catch a Greyhound Come on Around to My House, Baby Freight Train Blues Grieving Over...

How I Shed My Skin

...inferiority, castigating blacks as lazy, ugly, smelly, dirty, sloppy, unruly, faulty, sorry. Seemingly told in jest, they united whites around racist ideology. "When we laughed at the joke[s], we accepted...