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Southern Spaces

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

The Colonialist's Gaze

James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha

Janisse Ray and Nancy Marshall

Sonic Zora in Florida

Daphne A. Brooks

Styrofoam Trump head as yard sign.

Our Backward Revolution

Map of Mississippi Gulf Coast

Cartoon showing buzzards bearing the names of the US Supreme Court justices who voted to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act perched on the bones of a carcass. Caption reads: 'Don't Leave Any Meat on the Bones'

Air mail envelope showing Alabama flag stamp and Tuscaloosa stamp

Riverscape with swimmers.

Ryan Gainey Talks About Figs

Steve Bransford

Emory University

Garden designer Ryan Gainey (1946-2016) of Decatur, Georgia, was well known for synthesizing classical English design with vernacular southeastern species and participating in seed preservation. In this short video he discusses figs.

Recently Published

Color photo of Jesmyn Ward outdoors.

Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

Book cover for Bloody Tuesday.

"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa

William Robert Billups

Cartoon showing buzzards bearing the names of the US Supreme Court justices who voted to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act perched on the bones of a carcass. Caption reads: 'Don't Leave Any Meat on the Bones'

How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act

Trouble the Land:
The City Too Busy to Hate

Editors of Southern Spaces

Trouble the Land:
Crow and Molasses

Editors of Southern Spaces

Trouble the Land:
Atlanta Student Movement

Editors of Southern Spaces

Trouble the Land:
Prelude to the Atlanta Movement

Editors of Southern Spaces

Announcing: Trouble the Land: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities

Editors of Southern Spaces

Book cover. Robert Macfalane. Is a River Alive?

The Nature of Rights

Ellen Griffith Spears

Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City

Victorial applying makeup.

Victoria

Dirt road going up a misty mountain.

Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey

Green house trailer as image for the cover of the Sunset Colonies book.

Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman

Muddied dress on a headless mannequin in store.

Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina

Book cover for Southern Underground Railroad. Black face silhouette on top of map.

A Southern Underground Railroad

Portrait of Malinda Maynor Lowery

Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery

Malinda Maynor Lowery, Steve Bransford, et al.

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.