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Southern Spaces

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

Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

Robin Conner and Paul Johnson

Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

Gwen Ottinger, Ellen Griffith Spears, et al.

My grandfather, Đỗ Phương Anh, proudly standing in front of his family’s business, Bách Thảo Market in Nashville, after passing his citizenship test in 2000.

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

University of Oklahoma

Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers reads and talks about her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Alabama. Jeffers is the author of numerous books of poetry including The Age of Phillis as well as the novel The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois.

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Portrait of Malinda Maynor Lowery

Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery

Steve Bransford and Allen Tullos

Lê Thị Kim Hoa (left) and Đỗ Phương Anh (right). Circa 1960 in Việt Nam.

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Gyanendra Pandey

On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Matthew Francis Rarey

Styrofoam Trump head as yard sign.

Our Backward Revolution

Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19

Louise E. Shaw, Heather E. Rodriguez, et al.

The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks

Andrew Amstutz, Jess Porter, et al.

The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd

Jericho Brown and Eric Solomon

Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

Mary E. Frederickson

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt

Anthony Martin and Steve Bransford

Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics

Encountering COVID

Michelle Fishburne

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

Monzur Morshed Patwary

Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Daniel A. Pollock

Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt

Scott L. Matthews