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

Ossabaw Island Flyover

Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...blend of natural and human history. The western half of the island is composed primarily of Pleistocene sediments deposited along a shoreline 40–50,000 years ago. Much of its eastern half...

Mississippi Delta

...in the eastern floodplain of the lower Mississippi River. It is sixty miles at its widest point from the Yazoo to the Mississippi, in what poet William Alexander Percy called "a badly...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...

The Border South

...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...

On Fair Use

...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...legislated and upheld, allowing laws like Mississippi's HB 1523 to remain on the books. At least for now. Given the shifted balance of the Supreme Court, it is my hope...