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

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Farmers and ranchers across the South, Midwest, and West are struggling to bring their crops to harvest and feed their herds. Texas...

Welcome!

...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...

The Border South

...enslaved people (225,483) than Texas, Florida, and Arkansas, and the state contained more slaveholders than any other Southern state except Georgia and Virginia. The single largest slaveholding county in Kentucky,...

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...hot spots are categorized by page number and the user can specify a range of pages that will restrict the map's details and move through the events of those pages....

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act/. Rally to End Gerrymandering, Washington, DC, March 25, 2019. Photograph by Flickr user League of Women Voters. Copyright © 2019. The case, Merrill v. Milligan, will adversely shape voting...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

Brushes with War

...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...