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

California Creek, North Carolina

...Creek, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Paving crew, California Creek, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. I-26 with fresh pavement, but far from completion, running along Jarvis...

The US South and the 2008 Election

Essay At least since the 1960s, every presidential election has elicited abundant commentary on the role of the South in national politics. The 2008 election has been no different. It...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

Reading John Lane reads the poem "Returning Home, Saxon Mills." Poem text. About the Author John Lane teaches environmental studies at Wofford College where he also directs the Goodall Center for...

Sowing The Seed Underground

...and graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Montana in 1997. She currently resides in the Altamaha Community of Reidsville, Georgia, and teaches in the...

Dirty Little Story

...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....

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)....