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

Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising

...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...

Editors

...Tech Connie Eble, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College Michael Elliott, Emory University Beth English, Princeton University Keona Ervin, University of Missouri  David Estes, Loyola University-New Orleans...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50    smellin’ like crackers and peanut...

Artist Repertoire Index

This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982.   Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...of the 1920s and later, often met with sharp and widespread disapproval in border societies (22, 41, 113–114). There are critical distinctions, as Díaz notes, between amateur smuggling and professional...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

  Southern Spaces invites essays, photo essays, video productions, and digital projects which explore the relationships between social justice and real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...mining, she gave exploited American workers hope of gaining some control over their lives and bettering their conditions. To dramatize the exploitation of child labor in America, she even organized...

Besieged Terrain

...become the Robinson Forest, with more to follow in the 1820s. Their small homesteads didn't greatly alter the woods. Between 1880 and 1890 the first wave of large scale logging...