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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

Poplar tree, Buckner Gap, NC, 1994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Remains of the house rumored to have been the site of an illegal liquor distilling operation, near Buckner Gap,...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...ancient Near East to Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s. Another essay, by Joël Michel, surveys various forms of collective violence...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves intone. Only the fort remains, near...

California Creek, North Carolina

...I-26 West, near mile 7, California Creek, NC 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "I really can't comprehend the road or what it might look like years from now. I've...

Negotiating Black Identities

Video   Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...