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

Love and Death in Mississippi

...Zawadski case in my home state, I cannot help but ponder "to live with equal dignity." What is at stake in overturning "religious freedom" laws is more than the "freedom"...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...of collected fiction. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February 7, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0....

No Place

...You Think Of?" is also available on Southern Spaces. Cover Image Attribution Abandoned bridge over the Cahaba River, January 10, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user MK Hardy. Creative Commons license...

The Border South

...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...

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...