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

Prayer of the Backhanded

...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...in telling ways. He rightly challenges assumptions that the West was a racial utopia that differed markedly from the racist reality to the East, as "the western frontier did not...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...Timothy Pigford testified before a House subcommittee and recounted his experiences in eastern North Carolina. After attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for several years in the late...

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...sea bass and red snapper are costing Southeast and Gulf Coast states nearly one hundred million dollars in combined losses resulting from fewer fishing trips for those species. The past...

The Bulletin—August 9, 2012

...the company. The importance of the plant to the economic vitality of the town, and the importance of healthcare benefits to its workers recalls a similar relationship in nearby east...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...in the University's Utopian Landscapes."Southern Spaces, May 13, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/other-side-paradise-glimpsing-slavery-universitys-utopian-landscapes. Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment." Southern Spaces, July 16, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/coalfield-generations-health-mining-and-environment.  Easton, Terry. "Geographies of Hope and...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...to 2003. Originally from Brookline, Massachusetts, I moved to Arkansas in 2003, where I taught high school for two years in the Mississippi Delta, the eastern part of the state....