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

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...love's lodging tonight I'd draw nigh And in her lily-white arms I'd lie there all night And I'd watch the little windows for the dawning of day. Well I strolled...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

Belle plaine newspaper

...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...thing called "Southernness," like these songs, is by now at least a copy of a copy of a copy, with little grounding in anything material outside of the money to...

I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees

...who gave to the leaves of one yew the names of his own dead. Anyway the only spirits I can call in this place are the stench of a possum...

Whiskey and Geography

...a gallon. In the more populous areas, a gallon of rye could bring as much as a dollar. No entrepreneur would bother to transport sacks of grain by horse and...