Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...women's hard-won emancipation, expanding political consciousness, and support by an occupying federal military force. Briefly in the postbellum years, this alternative history achieved preeminence in Charleston's local reckoning with slavery....
Prayer of the Backhanded
...arm Like an angel's invisible wing May fly backward in fury Whether or not his son stands near. Help me hold in place my blazing jaw As I think to...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Mardi Gras, New Orleans’s quintessential event, briefly contrasting elite visions of an orderly ritual of power with the cheerful anarchy of carnival in the street. The contrast, he suggests, is...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...expending everything else. In other words, dirty ecology is the science of halfway practices. We know that driving and flying and industrial pollution and living in drywall houses destroys the...
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...