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

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South

Mary E. Frederickson

The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion

Andrew W. Kahrl

Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi

Angela Stuesse and Laura E. Helton

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The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico

José Amador

Miami University (Ohio)

José Amador discusses the transmission of new medical knowledge from Puerto Rico to the United States as it circulated from US military doctors through local physicians to hookworm patients.

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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

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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

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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.

"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square

Jesse P. Karlsberg and Steve Bransford

Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

Julio Capó Jr. and Eric Solomon

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

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