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

At Sun Ra's Grave

...Blanton waits his verdict, where Cherry waits for trial. They tissue like smoke over the interstate, split, descending, into Fountain Heights, into Oak Hill's graves, into east-side projects where clothesline...

Substantiation

...give up now. If Till is alive and well, he can't rest in Burr Oak Cemetery, will cruise where he's been said to be on the Detroit streets where everyone...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...MD; Berkeley, CA; Cincinnati, OH; Dayton, OH; Honolulu, HI; Long Beach, CA; Los Angeles, CA; Miami Beach, FL; New York City, NY; Oakland, CA; Philadelphia, PA; Portland, ME; Providence, RI;...

The Place of Appalachia

Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...

Birdhouses

...year-round. My younger daughter, Emma, startled us last spring when she reached upward as a sparrow shot from an oak tree, her hands cupped as if to catch rain, and...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...