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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—July 10, 2012

...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...Arkansas, and Branson, Missouri. Ninety-six percent white, the county is demographically similar to northern Arkansas and southern Missouri counties, home to a declining population predominantly employed in farming. Searcy's population...

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...

Place, Time, and Memory

Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...by the bare branches of invasive trees and tall weeds, I am reminded of many neglected houses, once owned in predominately Black neighborhoods in the Deep South, now abandoned on...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...a key player in the city's racially-shifting midcentury real estate business and power structure. Collier Heights, originally a predominately white neighborhood in Atlanta’s southwest corner, would not have welcomed Russell...