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

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...my father’s release from the island prison in 1983, he returned to his family in Sài Gòn for a few days before attempting again to escape by boat. This time...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...with a glazed surface. The particular fabric in this quilt has been identified as typical of the chintzes produced in England in the 1840s, which "show an impressionistic shading of...

Good-Bye to All That?

...a whole. But in some ways, the vote in this county is a microcosm of what is happening across America. When my wife, Jane, and I moved here part-time in...