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

Deep Ellum Blues

...trying to get to something like the newly developed Quadrangle, an elegant new shopping development just a few blocks away in the Oak Lawn district. Perhaps a wrong turn was...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...2008. His well-written and suggestive new book, Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, is as engrossing as it is grim. He argues convincingly that during the eighteenth and...

Welcome!

Welcome to the Southern Spaces blog. Since our first publication in 2004, Southern Spaces has been invested in peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access scholarship. Over the past few years, we have redesigned...

Brushes with War

...1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and three recent books on black...

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...United States.6"Lifetime Risk of HIV Diagnosis," CDC, February 23, 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/2016/croi-press-release-risk.html; "CDC Fact Sheet: Today's HIV/AIDS Epidemic," August 2016, https://www.cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/docs/factsheets/todaysepidemic-508.pdf; Claire Galofaro, "Appalachia Bracing for HIV," U.S. News & World...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions, Religion and Social Transformation (New York: New York University Press, 2012); Randall Balmer, "The Real Origins of the Religious...