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

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...Irish singer stood before the class, called out the page number, and asked to sing the song "Poland style." As Sacred Harp singing continues to spread, singers are finding ways...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...haunted a whole generation of people, especially those who became activists in the Freedom Struggle. Darryl Mace's In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black...