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

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...by maintaining the possibility for future transformation and transcendence.  Photo Essay Map of Mississippi Coastal Damage after Hurricane Katrina, September 2005 About Bruce West Bruce West is a Professor in...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...live on that earth—has given them and the next generation so little. Ra'Niqua Lee, editorial associate: I just finished Dorothy West's novel The Living is Easy. West tells the story...

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

...The Attack on the Voting Rights Act." Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. Wilkerson, Jessica. "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian History." Southern Spaces, March 12, 2019....

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...