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

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...and the misdeeds and mismanagement of the Mississippi legislature over decades requires a reckoning all its own. But several related things that emerge around structural, systemic oppression of LGBTI people...

Whiskey and Geography

...Wood, Jr., From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998), 33. Corn...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...or information sources and failing to acknowledge, or minimizing, the limits of their evidence. The risks of missing the mark are substantial. Causal interpretations skewed towards the unequivocal and unnuanced provide...

Insistent Traces

...poem "Old Elementary." View poem text here. About Claudia Emerson Claudia Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Late Wife. Her books include Figure Studies, Pinion, and Pharoah,...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...Alabama. He hopes to work in international or public policy law. Catalina "CJ" McCormick is also a 2009 graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in communications and...

Regions of Alabama

Video   Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...

Making History

...What I know of sacrifice is the tin spoons that always fall into my dorm room radiator. Cereal:spoon. Ice milk:spoon. The world is lousy with spoons. The world is lousy...

Scarecrow

...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...stand for bric-a-brac," a marble-topped mahogany table, two large upholstered rosewood sofas, two large chairs and five smaller chairs covered in the same material, and unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the...