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

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...through the use of textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions.  The COVID-19 series examines relationships between pandemic public health and specific geographies in the US and global...

A City Divided

...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...

How I Shed My Skin

...as teaching the worst lessons. There, racist discourse flowed between adults, between Sunday School and worship services, as well as mid-week meetings, at both the Baptist and Methodist churches he...