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

Social Justice Environmentalism

...unacknowledged environmentalism. When the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) campaigned to desegregate the bus system and open jobs to black citizens in Alabama's capital city, five of the organization's eight primary...

"Aint that Something?"

...(Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 76. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. Trampoline explores the tenacity of ties—in the ways that they offer love and...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...discusses “Miscegenation,” “The South,” “Saturday Matinee,” “Elegy,” “Mexico,” “The Book of Castas” and new work  About Natasha Trethwey Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished...