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

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...their inspiration from Birmingham, hundreds of African American high school students demonstrating in support of voting rights were arrested and incarcerated in Selma in the months before March 1965. But...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...and Martin plan to use the St. Catherines video footage to teach students how to identify and interpret the environments of a Georgia barrier island, and to conduct local-scale mapping....

When the Border Crossed Me

...of helpers I'd found for one or two days a week earlier in the summer—three high school students and occasionally one of their grandmas who drove them to the farm—had...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

Poetry, I tell my students, is idiosyncratic. Poetry is where we are ourselves (though Sterling Brown said "Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'"), digging in the clam flats for the...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...of scholars, educators, and students, but will also speak to a broader audience curious about subject formation in the American tropics. About the Author Valérie Loichot is a professor of...

Remnants of Flannery

...Drago's words, in Christine Ernest's pixelated and distorted needlework portrait, in O'Connor's words that remain in print and are read by countless students and fans. As the recent Bitter Southerner...

Anniversary

Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...

Educational Resources

Developed for teachers, students, and researchers, educational resources gather Southern Spaces publications into several fields of knowledge. Featuring well-crafted articles, videos, reviews, interviews, and digital projects, these continuously updated collections...

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...about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections. We intend our audience to be researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms,...