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

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...understand herself and to survive (7:28). Question and Answer Session About the Speakers E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar, artist, and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and...

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...the time of the 1967 decision, fifteen other (mostly southern) states (Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, West Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Delaware)...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), Methodist Church (MC), and the Presbyterian Church US (southern Presbyterians) following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. When these denominations voiced public support for the...

Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis

...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....

Remnants of Flannery

...see a ghost?"10Patricia Yaeger, "Ghosts and Shattered Bodies, or What Does it Mean To Still Be Haunted by Southern Literature?," South Central Review 2, no.1 (Spring 2005): 87. What do...