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

The Colonialist's Gaze

...included visual details of the transportation networks of primary and secondary roads, local trails, and railroads, as well as the agricultural environs. The archival research (upon which this illustrated lecture...

Leavenworth newspaper

Leavenworth Times. Untitled. October 30, 1887. "There is no State in the Union where a colored man has a better [hope] to ask for a solid Republican support than in...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...withholds cultural knowledge through his inclusion of transliterated orality. Language—the difficulties of dialect as words become the medium of resisting incorporation into a national or narratively flattened body—is crucial to...

Writing Appalachia

...media. These forces have virtually obliterated traditional agrarian Appalachia, although an interest in local foods in the region, part and parcel of a larger local foods movement in the United...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...Lewis recorded choral performances in Welsh miners' clubs, singing at pubs, and informal song swaps between Appalachian and Welsh singers. Lewis's time in Wales also facilitated in-person cultural exchange, represented...