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

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...case is groundbreaking because the mother did not undergo prenatal care to prevent her baby’s infection. The baby, now two-and-a-half years old, received antiretroviral drugs thirty hours after birth. The...

A Mess of Poke

...Kudzu and pokeweed in grocery store parking lot, Decatur, Georgia, 2011. My guess is that poke sallet still carries an aftertaste of poverty. Folks ate it because they were poor,...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...

Roadside Architecture

...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...

Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)

Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...