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

Quilting Conversation

Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...see this movie—and then let's start to fix what we can.  About the Author Patricia Yaeger is Henry Simmons Frieze Collegiate Chair at the University of Michigan. She was editor...

Image Credits

...Solomon. Pink Triangle. Photograph by Flickr user Equality Michigan. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Poster from protest against a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, St. Paul, Minnesota, May 16, 2011. Image...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...engage in oral or anal sex in fourteen states and Michigan was caught doing special "sting" operations targeting gay men in 2011. In other sodomy news, Virginia Attorney General and...

Negotiating Black Identities

...the Speaker Karyn Lacy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research include race and ethnicity, the sociology of culture, suburban sociology, and stratification....

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...

Sea Changes in Personhood

Review While taking its cues from apparently minor literary events and artifacts, Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics is a major intervention in literary criticism, political...