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

Sea Changes in Personhood

...and filmic productions in which the swamp, or other bodies of water, act as a main agent in cultural historical agency. These include William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, George Washington Cable's...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...W. Norton, 2010). About Sandra Beasley Sandra Beasley is a poet and nonfiction writer based in Washington DC. In 2011, her third book, Don’t Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...to test newly upheld federal prohibitions against segregation in interstate transportation. The CORE-sponsored rides were part of a months-long series of protests that stretched from diverse locales, including Washington, DC,...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American...