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

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...Kimberly Harper, White Man's Heaven: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1893–1909 (Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2010). recent scholars have both widened their geographical...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...probably fair to say that such fantasies have exerted a persistent force on the study of the US South that, until recent years, has been predicated on difference, especially difference...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

...of underreported black church burnings in southern states during the early 1990s. During his recent visit, I had the opportunity to interview Kennedy. As we chatted, Kennedy described his relationship to...

And the Prize Goes to...

...Hill conducted an in-class contest to choose the most interesting example of interdisciplinary methodology in a recently published southern studies article. Completed as part of the requirements for my senior...

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...the Faulkner family hopes that a public institution will end up purchasing the material.  A recent poll commissioned by Democrats reveals that Atlanta's political landscape is deeply divided. The poll...