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

Gold Records in Deep Space

...what these traces offer when carefully and imaginatively considered: glimpses of the musicians and their complex cultural worlds, as well as ways in which recordings and archival material can reveal...

Piedmont Blues

...talented blues guitarist of his era and is considered by some to be one of the best acoustic blues guitarists of all time. He was an itinerant songster, and his...

"Little Switzerland"

...entertaining in every way than all the others. The very best people of Atlanta visit it and the universal exclamation is, 'Oh, how beautiful! How gorgeously grand! I never knew...

The Border South

...be spared the full treatment of Southerness and might, therefore, enjoy a chance at civilization and reasonableness. The observation is at best ill-informed but it is persistently rendered, and we...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...hundred individuals). Others will make their way to private re-entry facilities (with varying degrees of effectiveness), and some will move into halfway houses. The majority will return to where they...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

Review An odd thing has happened on the way to the antebellum American past. Capitalism reigns; cotton is king; and work and workers are no longer studied together. Instead, slaves...

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....