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

Public Health in the US and Global South

...German settlement patterns and raises questions about longstanding assumptions regarding the presence of slavery as the determining factor in German settlement. Selected from a large number of submissions, these essays...

Seneca Quarry

...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...line of American poets who have touted the interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness: James Russell Lowell, Frances E. W. Harper, Emma Lazarus, Sarah Piatt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alexander Posey,...

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...has an incentive to cut every last tree, shoot every last large-bodied mammal, and let his cattle graze every last acre of wild meadow, leaving nothing for anyone else. The...

North Carolina: A State of Shock

...That measure failed to reach a final vote, but another bill outlawing Sharia law in North Carolina barreled through the legislature.6Foreign Laws/Protect Constitutional Rights, North Carolina Session Law 2013-416 (passed...