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

The Bulletin—January 29, 2013

...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...are biographies that also challenge the conventional trajectories of the “migrant.” In “Greece to Norfolk,” the exhibition tells of Demetrios Karkambasis (renamed James Campas) who comes to the United States...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...291,261; January 1, 1884) P.M. Stevens, Roller Coasting Device (U.S. Patent 298,710; May 18,1884) Early Roller Coaster Patents circa 1884 gif images United States Patent and Trademark Office    ...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...interests of business and political elites. Fair Development Campaign protest of Harbor Point development, Baltimore, Maryland, July 17, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user United Workers (CC BY 2.0). While reasonably...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...Star State, across the South, and indeed, across the entire United States, were vigorously undoing the gains achieved by blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction, all the while imposing...

The Place of Appalachia

Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...