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

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...inland ecosystems of Ossabaw, especially the maritime forests and salt marshes, were altered considerably by this agriculture. Following the American Civil War, a significant population of African Americans stayed on...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets in 1989, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature in 1991....

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...awarded the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

...construction of group consciousness/group formation) De jure disenfranchisement (impacts of voting policy on local representation; disenfranchisement of social groups, including imprisoned or ex-convicted people, immigrants) De facto disenfranchisement and regional...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...they had learned. In Ramu, faith-based organizations overcame the silos between their work, meeting to formulate policies for combating the spread of vaccine misinformation. Volunteers working with faith-based groups increased...

Submission Guidelines

...photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography, southern studies, regional studies, African American, Indigenous, and American Studies, women's and gender studies, public health, and social justice. We are...