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

Birdhouses

...am most drawn to subjects connected to the agrarian past. This is dangerous territory, where a large and seductive catalogue of clichés and stereotypes tempts at every turn. That is...

Zircon

...stone found in the family dirt's a kind of clock they say, a register of time from the beginning since it traps uranium and other elements decaying at a steady...

Remnants of Flannery

...most famous short story "Good Country People"? What would O'Connor's take be on what I call "Flannery on Film," the numerous in-the-works film adaptations of her texts?2 O'Connor's first novel,...

The Bulletin—May 15, 2012

...how legislators and lobbyists have encouraged the growth of the state’s prison population through financial incentives over the last two decades, causing Louisiana to become the world leader in incarceration....

Mapping Souths

...true that science has achieved, over space and time, triumphs almost miraculous, but it has not annihilated them. . . . It is almost impossible to conquer nature. . ....

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...hundred largest commuter zones in the study (worst here meaning the least likely for children born to low-income families to ever rise out of poverty), was used by The New...

The Bulletin—June 26, 2012

...of rebuilding wetlands on the Louisiana coast. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann is seeking federal approval for the state's new voter ID law (House Bill 921). Hosemann is in...