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

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Evidently a seed sack made of unbleached cotton fabric dating to the mid-nineteenth century,...

Genres of Southern Literature

...Dave Smith, "There’s a Bird Hung Around My Neck: Observations on Contemporary Southern Poetry." Five Points 1 (1997): 115-142. Dave Smith, "Cornering the Southern Poem." Southern Review 30 (1994): 643-49....

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...

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...