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

Mississippi: State of Confession

...and Jerry Falwell (228). The push for racial equality was the abomination in the temple.7A. G. Miller, "The Construction of a Black Fundamentalist Worldview: The Role of Bible Schools," in...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...critical scholarship, Matt Brim's Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University is at the top of my list right now. Brim reorients queer studies to an anti-elitist and anti-racist...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...thoughtful deliberation and intellectual honesty. Cherokee stickball game, Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies, Mars Hill University, November 8, 2011. Photograph by Hannah Furgiuele. Courtesy of the Liston B....

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...her serpent's tongue, is cleft. Nevertheless, O'Connor remained wary of identifying herself as a Christian novelist, a Catholic novelist, or a southern novelist. Of a subsequent interview she writes: Letter...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...the 1770s William Bartram’s list of forty-three Cherokee towns noted "Allagae" as a settlement located on "the waters of other rivers," those he had not traversed.8Bartram listed the Tennessee, Savannah,...