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

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

...August 23 to August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed though New Orleans, causing the levees to break, devastating a large part of the Crescent City. To mark the seventh anniversary...

The Bulletin—September 4, 2012

...reelection campaign, because Charlotte is a city without unionized hotels in a state which has the lowest percentage of union members in the nation.  As we continue to think about...

Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces

...to consider includes (but is not limited to): Spaces and Identities​ Intersectionality, hybridity, identity: race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, regional identity, and class Migration narratives, globalization, queer diaspora, and spaces of...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...

The Change

...it floods    my memory.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

The State House Aflame 1833

Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...

Inside Poor Monkey's

Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film.  His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to...