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

Substantiation

...like smoke or blood. But they regather and whistle overhead and shit back shot as they fly.   Published in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008). Text may vary slightly from...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

...suppression Print culture and protest (pamphlets, broadsides, flyers, picket signs, graffiti) Politics in fiction and popular culture Examples Southern Spaces continually accepts submissions within several genres of multimedia scholarship, including...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...at Southern Spaces "An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America" by Grace Elizabeth Hale "Ossabaw Island Flyover" by Anthony Martin, Steve Bransford, et al. "The Podcast and the Police:...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway.        The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

...Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/nclc.01060. As the western edge of European settlement, the mountainous backcountry of eighteenth-century Appalachia briefly represented a space of relative freedom from state...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...