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

Atchison newspaper

Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...

When the Border Crossed Me

...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...

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

...Depot Street, and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems, recently issued by Pitt Poetry Series. Pratt's latest book, The Dirt She Ate is described by the New York...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....

The Chesapeake Bay

...watershed encompasses parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). The Bay was formed only 10,000 years ago. Its Algonquian name, which means "Great Shellfish...