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

Place, Time, and Memory

...rural landscape, the effects of time's passage upon the material world, the hubris of monumentality, and the fatal attractions of evil. A graduate of the University of Alabama, Christenberry lived...

Birdhouses

...drastically reshaped the landscape to make the two ponds one. The contrast between birdhouse and backdrop seemed significant, and framing it in the Holga's viewfinder, I saw sanctuary against foreboding...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...the end of conservatism itself. The movement has spawned think tanks, media outlets and other institutions that have become permanent fixtures on the political landscape. This election won't change any...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...I become, my sweetest friend?" An anomaly on the music video landscape for its absence of frenetic spectacle, sexual tease, and unbounded youthfulness, the "Hurt" video was a critical sensation...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...Europeans, migrating from a different disease zone outside the tropics, suffered more than Africans from malaria. The wealthiest white elite, who could afford to escape the sickly summer and fall...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...Edmund Pettus Bridge Brings Fame, Fortune, to Selma," Montgomery Advertiser, January 5, 1992. Binding memories to landscape, the bridge at Selma locates transitions from one time and space to another....

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...