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

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...Đỗ Quang Châu, phoned and convinced him to move to Tennessee. Châu, more familiarly known as Father Peter, was the former head pastor of St. Martha’s Catholic Church, the first...

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

...Opossum Farm," Democratic Northwest (Napoleon, OH), Dec. 19, 1889, 4, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84028296/1889-12-19/ed-1/seq-4/. John Rand's ranch in Louisiana, in 1892;55"State News," St. Landry Clarion (Opelousas, LA), May 7, 1892, 1, https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88064250/1892-05-07/ed-1/seq-1/. an...

Religion and the US South

...justify slavery, as part of their defense against abolitionist criticism. One strain of the proslavery argument saw southern society as the last bulwark against an inhumane industrial order that had...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...Author and artist Robert C. Adams" depicts a stockade surrounding one building and omits all other structures known to have been part of the post (guard house, storage houses, stables,...

The Shenandoah Valley

...turns out, was most pronounced where economic development forces were the strongest. Railroads, industrial enterprises, cash crop agriculture, businesses and institutions fed and were fed by slavery. Just as significant...