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

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...deduction."3O'Brien, The Idea of the American South, 1920–1941 (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979): xxi, xxii. Although not entirely unprecedented, O'Brien's wedge between the idea of the South and...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...loss of their former country, many Americans have little interest in revisiting this history or learning its lessons. Still wrenching in the minds of Vietnamese American refugees, the policy decisions...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...communities and landscapes in a structure for sustaining both.6Tim Barnwell, The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 121, 122, 126. The project...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Americans use the centennial to establish “the justice and equality which were the dream of the founding fathers and . . . the inalienable rights of every American citizen.” Many...

Glocal Lounge

...imaginary of the US small town contributes to the ideology of American empire, author Ryan Poll offers a quick overview of the term: At the conclusion of his canonical essay,...