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

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...libidinal dimension. It consists in federating a diversity of democratic demands and its construction necessitates a principle of articulation, a "hegemonic signifier" around which common affects can crystallize. Thanks to...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...the strides to the other side mean? Here handmade bricks like colorful quilts laid into the ground cover graves of slaves. Where is Sisyphus? I think I see him in...

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Ellipsis

...ground, burnt down by the distant white cousin who no doubt heard the ghosts humming and fussing, rattling, ratcheting, singing. Burn! she screamed. So it did. The fussing quieted. In...

The Bulletin—December 20, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

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...

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...