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Southern Spaces

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

Informed Power: Networks of Communication in the Early American South

Nathaniel F. Holly

Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

Lawrence N. Powell

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

A vast open field lines with trees and a single pale strip of water cutting through the center towards the sky.

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

Claudrena N. Harold

University of Virginia

The complex histories, brutal realities, and fruitful possibilities in the music of Gil Scott-Heron.

Recently Published

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

A Green Democratic Revolution

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

Stephanie Bryan

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations

Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Steve Bransford