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

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...Emory University geographer Michael Page, environmental scientist Anthony (Tony) Martin, and graduate student Alison Hight flew a camera-bearing drone over nearly every type of ecosystem on the island: maritime forests,...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...focus on structural inequality. Phillip Gordon's Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond examines Faulkner's relationships with gay men and how traces can be found within his...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...cardboard cutouts, and illustrations. One of his gold records sits on the floor, the glass in its frame shattered, debris strewn nearby. "It's all fleeting," Cash said in one of...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Ernest Gaines, Tim Gautreaux, Ellen Glasgow, Caroline Gordon, Shirley Ann Grau, Barry Hannah, John Wylie Henderson, Mary Hood, William Bradford Huie, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Randall Keenan, Barbara...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...was living in nearby Savannah, Georgia, and had just celebrated her 107th birthday. This Ossabaw flyover video provides a visual sample of the many interconnections between natural and human histories...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...