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

The Shenandoah Valley

...around 25 percent of the total population enslaved. There was significant sub-regional variation in the spread of slavery across the Valley; in Clarke County, for example, nearly half of the...

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

...remained imprisoned. The family’s income was left to my grandmother and father.  For the following six months, my father’s job was driving people around the city on a cyclo, a...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...around Columbus. On weekends, he and his wife Cathy drove within a fifty-mile radius, and, to their great delight, learned that the area was filled with exceptional blues players. "Every...