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

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...understand herself and to survive (7:28). Question and Answer Session About the Speakers E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar, artist, and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and...

Whiskey and Geography

...de Chastelleaux observed that it was the only drink served in the American backcountry.1David Hackett-Fischer, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 729. In...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...frequency with which houses go unfinished or unutilized, as Americans go homeless. (top left) Connections; (top middle) Decommissioned flooring, moulding, railing, siding, and plain pickets; (top right) Abandoned frame for...

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...Yoknapatawpha Project. Taylor Hagood: I'm an associate professor of American Literature at Florida Atlantic University and a member of a team of scholars, technical experts, programmers, and cartographers who contribute...

The Border South

...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...2.6 jobs for American workers. Asian immigrants frequently come with or earn advanced degrees. What are the policy implications of this phenomenon for the region? What does this blind spot...