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

Single Centers of Creation?

...vioscai Southern Red Salamander Plethodon serratus Southern Red-backed Salamander Eurycea cirrigera* Southern Two-lined Salamander Plethodon ventralis (formerly dorsalis) Southern Zigzag Salamander[SC] Plethodon welleri ventromaculatus Spotbelly Salamander [SC] Desmognathus conanti Spotted...

Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America

...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...

A Mess of Poke

...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...

Brushes with War

...Art, provides a different but equally absorbing experience. The weighty book, produced handsomely by Yale University Press, is carefully researched, clearly written, and brimming with illustrations. More enduring than the...

Zircon

Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons on the mountainside and on the pasture hill a hundred years ago they'd no idea the little crystal bit they sought would...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...Nesbit, Scott. "Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia." Southern Spaces, July 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/scales-intimate-and-sprawling-slavery-emancipation-and-geography-marriage-virginia.  Tarasawa, Beth. "New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...was put into question legally, economically, and ontologically. Such an argument may seem incompatible with thinkers who have reflected on the dehumanization of the slave and have insisted on the...