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

Birth Right

...last few decades have resulted in an overmedicalization of healthcare. Over-reliance on medical technology and innovation with regard to maternal and child health has led to a collective loss of confidence...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...October 11, 2007–February 3, 2008 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 2–June 8, 2008 "It's interesting that as soon as you start telling the story of racism, you start reliving...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...but the twenty-six images selected for publication were believed to be lost until recently, when the Gordon Parks Foundation discovered color transparencies wrapped in paper with the handwritten title "Segregation...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...(e.g. masks, vaccines, ventilators, Zoom/virtual meetings)? How have individuals experienced affective dimensions of the pandemic, including transformative expressions of grief, loss, community, and connection?  How did the pandemic transform the...