End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and Global South....
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...James B. Wallace, "Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography," Southern Spaces, June 4, 2007, http://southernspaces.org/2007/stormy-banks-and-sweet-rivers-sacred-harp-geography; Jesse P. Karlsberg, "Folklore's Filter: Race, Place, and Sacred Harp Singing" (PhD...
And the Prize Goes to...
...digital writing projects. All eligible contest articles were published between January 2014 and Spring 2015 and engaged southern studies themes, expansively defined. Our survey included articles from Southern Spaces, Southern...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...sent over 750,000 slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South between 1830 and 1860.5Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003),...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...
Southern Spaces Recommends
Blog Post Eric Solomon, "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" series editor: I've been on a reading streak the past few months. Here are a few I recommend. In terms of...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...permanent (1565) European/African/Native American settlement on US territory. The inclusion of the forty–six free and enslaved Africans who arrived on Spanish ships at the first landing on August 28, 1565,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Work of Looking." Figure 6 (Top): Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, September 29, 2014. http://lookingatappalachia.org/south-carolina#/id/i9215392. Figure 7 (Middle): Brothers Ralph and Robert, Pickens, Pickens County, South Carolina, November 4,...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...rural Alabama, these images follow the daily activities of an extended African American family in their segregated, southern town. When they appeared as part of the Life photo essay "The...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines. From The Southern Quarterly: Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly:...