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

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...compose the broader section of the nation known as the South, as this study of South Carolina’s coastal parishes illustrates. Each one—from the Virginia Tidewater and the Florida Keys to...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...plantation formed a kind of domestic parish to which slaves belonged" (11). Beckett concludes that Jesuits treated slaves "no worse than" other slaveholders, but following Curran, he emphasizes that the...