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

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...numbers of people who survived the acute phase of their infections are affected by long-term sequelae. Perhaps we now know better the enormity and implications of what was missing in...

Bodies and Souls

...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...significant number of requests." Further, all members participate on a volunteer basis, spending much of our time otherwise as graduate students, teachers, doulas, herbalists, and nonprofit workers. Over the last two...

August, 1959: Morning Service

...and the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening.   Published in Virginia Quarterly Review (Summer 2000). Text may vary slightly from the video reading. Published: 6 December...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...down the channel to listen for the baby's dreams — all years after the whorehouses, the fires, Reconstruction and true religion came, after Whitman said his piece and left the...

Sweep

...has died form each class. Seamless gray sky, horns from the four-lane, the lot’s oil slicks rainbowing and dimpling with rain. I have been home for three days, listening to...