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Southern Spaces

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

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

Barbara Ellen Smith

New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South

Barbara Ellen Smith and Jamie Winders

Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

Peter McCandless

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Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

Gwen Ottinger, Ellen Griffith Spears, et al.

With an introduction by Christopher Lirette, Gwen Ottinger and Ellen Griffith Spears review Robert Misrach and Kate Orff's Petrochemical America (Aperture, 2012). Included is an excerpt from this work of research, photography, and infographics, which surveys the environmental impact of the petrochemical industry on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.

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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.

Reckoning with Enslavement

William G. Thomas III

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

When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

Staff and Editorial Board

Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt

Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd

"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic

Eric Solomon and Forrest Lawson

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

Staff and Editorial Board

The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education

New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement

Robert Gioielli

"To the White People of America" (1854)

Jesse P. Karlsberg

Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives

Staff and Editorial Board

Southern Spaces Recommends

Staff and Editorial Board

An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America

Grace Elizabeth Hale

Ossabaw Island Flyover

Anthony Martin, Steve Bransford, et al.

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

Social Justice Environmentalism

Ellen Griffith Spears

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

John Howard, Eric Solomon, et al.