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

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...how we represent them digitally. When it comes to race, class, gender, and other inherited categories and constructs, we now have the opportunity to reframe or redefine those terms. From...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

...the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta...

The Liminal Site

...the Park Problems, Needs, and Opportunities of the City and its Immediate Surroundings (Birmingham: Park and Recreation Board of Birmingham, 1925), 12. Reprinted by the Birmingham Historical Society, 2005. "It...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...allows businesses and providers to refuse service to LGBTQ individuals should such service violate "sincerely held religious beliefs." In refusing to hear the cases of Barber v. Bryant and Campaign...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...was done at the University of Georgia (Athens) Marine Institute, or the UGAMI, founded in 1953. The UGAMI owes its existence to ecologist Eugene Odum (1913–2002) and tobacco heir/businessman R.J....

Public Health in the US and Global South

...understand health care as a fundamental human right. Across generations, the major social determinants of public health remain—class, race, gender, and geography—while the particulars have shifted dramatically. Outrages over food...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia.   Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...