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

Social Justice Environmentalism

...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...sanctioned way of life. But the same enslaved Africans who introduced rice culture brought with them a virulent strain of falciparum malaria, and as they cleared swamps for expanded rice...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...

Submission Guidelines

...Types Southern Spaces publishes eight different genres of scholarship: articles, interviews, photo and media essays, videos, presentations, reviews, blog posts, and monographs. The best way to determine if your work...

Our Backward Revolution

...still raged, and then gained political rights during Reconstruction. That moment ended when a violent white, counter-revolutionary movement took away their rights as citizens and much of their property, returning...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...already been on the subway system in Manhattan) had an unerring sense of direction. Faulkner never denied being southern, and he was among the first to acknowledge the existence of...