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

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...track line from the corner of Broad and Marietta streets along Broad street to Houston, thence to Hillard and to Highland avenue and to Edgewood. This line was subsequently extended...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...or other federal benefits, and county USDA offices purposely squeezed black farmers out of farming. Paradoxically, the flight of African Americans from the land coincided with the civil rights movement,...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...and Last Objects, Left on Porch of Evacuated House address particular issues of loss—the loss of a place to worship and pray; the loss of a place to socialize, drink,...

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...