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

Birdhouses

...change. Inspired, I walked across the yard and photographed a periscope-looking house emerging from an apparent wilderness, then back toward the unfamiliar new pond. As many times as I had...

El Dorado newspaper

El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...

Race

...told, and not told, this tale. The one time Great-Uncle Paul brought his wife to New York he asked his siblings not to bring their spouses, and that is where...

Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney

...public-access television, a teacher at New York University, and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was remembered in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and by Tom Rankin...

Glocal Lounge

...regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. Perhaps our blog can serve as a...

Old Elementary

...the first school he despised, in the despised small town where we grew up. I drive past it every time I go back there, the building abandoned years ago by...

In the Magic City

...browning air     the static that backs the horn when I start it up again.     Tyner almost sweats what he keeps just out of time,     what Jimmy's talking...