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

Birth Right

...areas of the state are medically underserved, frequently impoverished, and suffer from higher infant and maternal mortality rates. According to a report by the American Hospital Association, between 1980 and...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...

Image Credits

...KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March 7, 1967. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018....

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...South Intersections of music with place, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class Native American musics, Latina/o musics, musics of immigrant groups Local music scenes: punk, hardcore, rock, folk, hip-hop, emerging...

Putting up Beans

...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander...

Atchison newspaper

Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...

Birmingham, Alabama images

...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...

Jackson, Mississippi images

Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...