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

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...reprint ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). I had met Thomas in New Orleans for the first time a few weeks before the ceremony. I had asked her then what slavery...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...

Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City

...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html.  Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...easy."7Michelle Malkin, "Queen of Cringe," New York Post, April 25, 2007; "The Big Story with John Gibson," Fox News Network, March 5, 2007. Straining to speak in the voice of...