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

The Crowd He Becomes

...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

...North Carolina at Greensboro in 2002. His first full-length collection of poems, The Boatloads, was published by BOA Editions in 2008 and was awarded the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize....

How I Shed My Skin

...racist points, over and over, with crude color-coded metaphors. Location of Jones County in North Carolina (top) and location of Pollocksville in Jones County, North Carolina (bottom). Maps by Southern Spaces, 2015. Faithfully reporting...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...Timothy Pigford testified before a House subcommittee and recounted his experiences in eastern North Carolina. After attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for several years in the late...