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

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...

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....

Insistent Traces

...other honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Born in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson is the Arrington Distinguished Chair in...

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...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...builds on the work of scholars in environmental history, medical humanities, and ethics to analyze the cultural and economic factors in health policy and medical care. This history reveals heroes...

The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey

...refuse the concept of the postracial in and for a post-emancipation society."3Coleman Hutchison, "Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism," Southern Spaces, December 25, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/three-poems-and-critique-postracialism. Former Southern Spaces managing...