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

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...artist. Born in Memphis in 1939, Eggleston grew up there and in Sumner, Mississippi, at his grandparent's home. While Eggleston has worked across the United States including Califorinia, New York,...

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...temperatures and the worst drought in the continental United States since the 1950s. NOAA's report and a study they completed with a similar agency in the United Kingdom suggest that...

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...at Harvard Graduate School of Education, marked the anniversary by questioning the notion that public schools in the United States are really desegregated, asking "Is this the desegregation Meredith fought...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...from the State of Florida, and numerous Knight Foundation faculty development grants. His photographs have been published in numerous magazines and exhibited throughout the United States. His most recent project,...

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...

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Copyright for contributions published in Southern Spaces is retained by the authors, with publication rights granted to the journal. Content is free to users. Any reproduction of original content from Southern Spaces must a) seek...

Image Credits

...Pietà Revisited, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Freedom?, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Hoosier Hospitality, March 30, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Mike Licht. Creative Commons...

The State House Aflame 1833

...the purchase of his freedom from John Marlow. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn   Published in Blood...