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

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...a woman. The local neighborhood association puts up signs that read, "A Past with a Future." As I see it, the neighborhood's past is rich with gay history, and the...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

...features in the painting: gourds, the building, the woman’s clothes and her mixed race lineage About the Presenter Peter H. Wood is an emeritus professor of American history at Duke...

The Place of Appalachia

...Globalization in/of Appalachian Studies," Appalachian Journal 37 (Spring–Summer 2010): 286–300. Space-time compression in Appalachia more likely takes form as an exhausted working-class woman, such as the pregnant Latina poultry worker...

A Mess of Poke

.... . salad . . . ungh. So growls Tony Joe White in his 1969 hit, "Polk Salad Annie," about a notorious woman and a ubiquitous weed. Pokeweed, or poke...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....