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

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...Snyder and Jack B. Moore, Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), 12.  During the next four decades the firm stayed prosperous by continuing...

How I Shed My Skin

...explained" (8) the unprecedented circumstances of judicial desegregation, speaking only in "coded, guarded" (10) language. Photograph of a young Jim Grimsley, age 11, Jones County, North Carolina, 1966. Courtesy of...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...disease outbreaks such as COVID-19. Bangladesh's health services are centralized and urban-centric.1There are only 1.1 doctors per 10,000 people in rural populations in Bangladesh, while there are 18.2 doctors per...

The Chesapeake Bay

...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...