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

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...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...

The Dirt Eaters

Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...homes where Mother's Day dinners cooled while the locals watched the smoke agitate the north Alabama sky, and Janey Miller, the twelve year old with a well bucket and a...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...Ansley, Fran and Anne Lewis. "Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee." Southern Spaces, May 19, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/going-south-coming-north-migration-and-union-organizing-morristown-tennessee. Auslander, Mark. "The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...Arkansas, and Branson, Missouri. Ninety-six percent white, the county is demographically similar to northern Arkansas and southern Missouri counties, home to a declining population predominantly employed in farming. Searcy's population...