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

The Place of Appalachia

...Appalachian Journal 11 (Autumn–Winter 1983–1984): 23–31. In an era of protracted labor uprisings, particularly in the central Appalachian coalfields, and increased recognition of the relationship between regional poverty and a...

Submission Guidelines

...in the US South; make connections and comparisons between southern regions or locales and places in the wider world; or use textual, archival, and ethnographic data to challenge conventional ways...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...of return migration would have paralleled many travelers' comings and goings between continents. John Smith’s story questions the dichotomy between "immigrant" and "colonist," or "settler.” Among the other eight profiles...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...https://southernspaces.org/2021/undoing-voting-rights-act/. Justice Alito's Remarks from the Bench about how racial bloc-voting "may be due to ideology." Merill v. Mulligan oral argument. Audio courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United...