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

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

...it's lit up and is never going to change. The quiet is gone and it's never going to change." Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...in a chapter on "Fiction Writing and Social Change." Gray understands the irony of the word "aberration," its message that the canonized "southern" writing has not taken this path into...

Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives

...violence against Black people—and all other forms of systemic racial oppression—and demanding accountability and meaningful change. We support the Black Lives Matter movement, and we denounce white supremacy, police brutality,...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...coverage of the provision—sued US Attorney General Eric Holder, arguing that "The South has changed." Chief Justice John Roberts, in the majority opinion, agreed: "Things have changed in the South....

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...has absorbed them, is using them, and will build upon them. In some places, social change comes in the volcanic eruption of revolution, while in academia change generally comes from...

The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...