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

Bear Branch, North Carolina

Sign advertising new motel at Exit 3, Bear Branch, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Unidentified people sitting on their porch at Bear Branch before they have to vacate...

Fall Creek

As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore claims clothes were shed...

Scarecrow

...cling to your journey — A long walk on yellow brick, two taps From a wizard's wand. I like to think Of these cornrows as a kind of maze, Imagine...

Work

...Lejeune and college. After two babies. Worked to the tune of minimum wage, ten-hour days, and culled furniture. Once I went into the deafening grind and buzz of the machine...

Geography

...from each time: a man pining for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead on a slab at St. James. I’m too young to know this is foreshadowing.  To get away...

Negotiating Black Identities

...to Blacks from other classes. Her current work explores the impact of an elite social organizations on the construciton and reproduction of class-based identities among middle-class Blacks. Prof. Lacy's lecture...

The Bulletin—September 4, 2012

...the importance of organized labor to today's workers, we encourage you to read (or reread) some of our pieces on labor in the US South like Fran Ansley and Anne...

"Little Switzerland"

...there was such a lovely place about Atlanta.' In fact, it seems to be the universal opinion of all who visit Little Switzerland. "During the past winter the owners of...