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

Scarecrow

 "In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand   I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small...

Gone With the Wind

...flickering neon and fire, like Atlanta spilling into the night, and the Princess, here, in miniature, painted by the flickering of a model trolley's tiny headlamps on the tiny corner...

Dirty Little Story

...my state, my people. I say I hope this won't be the permanent impression of Mississippi that they take away. We try to let the children swim, but the joy...

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...courtesy of Rob Amberg. 180-ton dump truck hauling debris to a fill area, north of Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Highway construction in process, Buckner Gap,...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...when he founded his company at the height of Jim Crow restrictions in 1952. The 8,761-square-foot residence on 714 Shorter Terrace signals the hard work and commitment of businessmen and...

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

Whitts’ BP Station at the top of Murray Mountain on US 23 North, Murray Mountain, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Dale Fluty on the highway: "We would agree...

Jarvis Branch, North Carolina

Chris Carter’s home being moved out of the right-of-way of I-26, Jarvis Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Chris Carter’s house being moved to new location off of...