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

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...sexist hierarchies.) Screen capture of Wikipedia's five pillars, April 10, 2013. The preparation for the event and the four hours of collective editing and discussion helped me better understand Southern...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...orthodoxy ultimately reveals a trend toward market-driven "reforms" and belies "the reality … that in most places [public housing] worked—and still does work" (2). Pruitt-Igoe demolition, April 22, 1972. US...

Birth Right

...Administration (HRSA), Special Data Request, April 2009. Midwifery advocates insist that legalizing midwifery would be a cost-effective response to the lack of birth plan options for women in rural Alabama....

El Dorado newspaper

El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...

Fort Scott newspapers

...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...

The Chimney

...against the drying chimney, leaving his long thumbprint swirling.   Published in Chattahoochee (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...