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

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...a school teacher, and I often wondered how they were managing with three children. The house was lost to foreclosure, and they were forced to get out, and I mean...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...summer to autumn. Tree limbs refuse to stand upright, but bend inward from left and right, curving into an asymmetrical spiral of light, shadow, and texture. There is some semblance...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...hispanic mother and almost saved by a cop who brought from his pocket a shirt's worth of proof before the woman vanished with her English, before the psychics started rowing...

Geography

...from each time: a man pining for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead on a slab at St. James. I’m too young to know this is foreshadowing.  To get away...

Chattanooga, Tennessee images

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...

The Bulletin—May 15, 2012

...which defines marriage as "between one man and one woman" has brought the issue of equal rights for same-sex couples into the center of the national political arena over the...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...migrant heartbreaks as in the story of an enslaved woman named Nancy who in 1815 was freed by her master only to learn that under a 1806 law she had...