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

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...the public domain. "Love More, Hate Less," Pulse Orlando Memorial site, Orlando, Florida, December 29, 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. "No One Stands Alone," Atlanta Pride, Atlanta, GA, October 2017. Photograph by Eric...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...build networks of activism and care (13:40). Part Five Bridgforth on growing up in Los Angeles, raised by people from Memphis, and New Orleans, listening to stories, and writing to...

And the Prize Goes to...

...folklore, information sciences, public policy, music, food studies, and economics. The seminar voted Simone Delerme's 2014 Southern Spaces article, "'Puerto Ricans Live Free': Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape," as...

Remnants of Flannery

...largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and the...

Local Color

...practitioners of local color, writing out of backwoods Georgia, James River plantation Virginia, or Creole New Orleans adapted regional peculiarities of all kinds to plots that frequently hinged on one...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...does not equal the state of "social death" Orlando Patterson qualified as "one of the most extreme forms of the relation of domination, approaching the limits of total power from...

How I Shed My Skin

...the University of North Carolina, Grimsley migrates to the queer mecca of New Orleans. By memoir's end, Violet (one of the three students who integrated Grimsley's middle school, the one...

Place, Time, and Memory

Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...