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

Encountering COVID

...were struggling. For instance, I talked with Emma, a director of a migrant farmworker nonprofit. She told me about how really nobody cared to protect migrant farmworkers and about one...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...the rustic name that the pattern had originated among early settlers on the frontier. For instance, a writer in 1935 stated flatly that "No Colonial home was complete without one...

Emporia newspapers

...However, This Is Not Dixie and He Will Probably Be Left for the Law to Handle   Sunday morning at the hour of about 3:20 Mrs. Johnson Lusk whose husband...