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

A City Divided

...lining Jackson Hill, just east of the Atlanta's downtown, were uncomfortable with the presence of African Americans in the area, it did not surface publicly until 1910. That year, local...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...Consider O'Connor's commentary on Richard Chase's 1957 book, The American Novel and Its Tradition: Letter dated 1 October 1960. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...American musical canon. Through multiple rounds of interracial and cross-class appropriations southern "folk," black and white have long made minstrelsy. Miller's book helps us understand how celebrations of small town...