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

Unquiet Emmett Till

...Southeast, and West Coast. He also gives plenty of space to African American journalism, sometimes folded into his geographical schema (the Chicago Defender is a midwestern publication, the California Eagle...

Welcome!

...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...

On Fair Use

...our occasional use of copyrighted material. As Sarah Melton discussed in a May 2012 blog post, we often wrestle with questions of fair use when finding media for our blog, our featured...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...mid-nineteenth century. Plantation agriculture depended on slave labor of people with varied languages and origins in west Africa, resulting in an enforced cultural mélange. Descendants of those enslaved people, and...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Hanson, Bradley. "The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee." Southern Spaces, November 20, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/tennessee-jamboree-local-radio-barn-dance-and-cultural-life-appalachian-east-tennessee. Matthews,...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...

Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects

...2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/highlighting-charlestons-african-american-history-through-lowcountry-digital-history-initiative. Bransford, Steve, Michael Page, and Anthony Martin. "St. Catherines Island Flyover." Southern Spaces, July 14, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/st-catherines-island-flyover. Hagood, Taylor. "The Digital Yoknapawtawpha Project." Southern Spaces, January 22, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/digital-yoknapatawpha-project....