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Southern Spaces

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

Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt

Scott L. Matthews

Styrofoam Trump head as yard sign.

Our Backward Revolution

The Dispossessions of Appalachia

Barbara Ellen Smith

Black Teen TV Dance Shows

Matthew F. Delmont

African Americans marching outside the Georgia State Capitol for police integration 1946.

Riverscape with swimmers.

The main exterior mural at the Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans, celebrating Central City cultural performers.

Close up silhouette of Black man with partial face makeup.

County carnival showing a spinning ride.

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

Steve Bransford

Emory University

An international team of scholars and visual artists describe the process of creating a 3D model of a ship active in the trade of enslaved persons from 1769 to 1774.

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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.

The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks

Andrew Amstutz, Jess Porter, et al.

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