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

The Carolina Piedmont

...profit. A seemingly bottomless pool of displaced tenant and sharecropper families provided generations of cheap, exploitable labor upon which the new industrial class built its wealth and political power. The...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...