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

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...studies; critical regional studies; African American, Indigenous, and American studies; women's and gender studies; LGBTQ studies, public health; and social justice. A digital publication, Southern Spaces provides an open access...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...not only the electoral potential in the Sunbelt but also the political dynamite in the social and cultural conflicts of the 1960s. Phillips famously confided to a journalist that understanding...

Bodies and Souls

...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...twentieth- and early twenty-first-century version of "Negro removal."3"Negro removal" was a phrase used to describe the disproportionate displacement of black people from neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal. "Urban renewal," writes...