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Southern Spaces

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

Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast

Michele Navakas

Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon

An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon

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DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II

Elena Conis

University of California, Berkeley

Elena Conis examines competing narratives of DDT to find a more complicated story of local American values, beliefs, and ideas about health and environment in the history of this pesticide during and immediately after World War II.

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Sonic Zora in Florida

Daphne A. Brooks

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

Daniel A. Pollock

Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head

Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"

Mark Auslander and Avis E. Williams

"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs

Stephanie Rountree

Call for Blog Posts, Articles, and Media: COVID in Viral Times

Mary E. Frederickson

1108 Dynamite Hill

Joseph Quintana and Mary Campbell Kitchens

"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

Elliott J. Gorn

Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease

Barbara Ellen Smith

Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo

Bridgette W. Gunnels and Abel González Melo

En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo

Bridgette W. Gunnels and Abel González Melo

Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation

Daniel A. Pollock

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America

Craig Womack, Barbara Creel, et al.