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

Social Justice Environmentalism

...containers transporting biosolids from New York and New Jersey wastewater treatment plants to Big Sky Landfill, Adamsville, AL, January 2018. Photograph by Dennis Pillion. "Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of train cars...

"Aint that Something?"

...a misfit: "Willet stood in front of me, breathing through his mouth, and I wanted to squeeze his big soft head. The feeling was new and strange" (258). "A hole...

Residues of Border Control

...Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, "Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities," in The New York Times (New York: 2010). Even in terms of the absolute increase in foreign-born population, three...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...magazine’s Japan edition. Newspapers from the Memphis Commercial Appeal to the New York Times have published descriptions and photos. The floor plan of the lounge has been analyzed as an...

Cajun South Louisiana

...with French Canada. The growth of tourism in the early twentieth century led south Louisiana promoters to establish new tourist sites to attract travelers. Womens clubs played a prominent part...

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...