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

The Change

...year dusters sprayed malathion over our clustered bodies,   perspiring while we primed bottom lugs, those ground level leaves of tobacco, and it clung to us with black tar so...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...Amberg. Workers spreading erosion control netting around the bridge abutments on the bridge over US 23 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Hikers on...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...

Julius Hartman

...of his life. "The beautifying of Ponce de Leon park. "There are thirty acres of ground out there that present grander possibilities for improvement than any place in this country....

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...and Ann Pancake. "Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2017. https://southernspaces.org/2017/closer-ground-conversation-ann-pancake. Yaeger, Patricia. "Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology." Southern Spaces, February...

Submission Process

...how Southern Spaces makes sure that we’re sending the highest quality work to peer reviewers.   Once authors have received their peer review feedback, we begin the final round of...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...fountain in front of a store. Five girls and a boy watch a Ferris wheel on a neighborhood playground. Shot in 1956 by Life magazine photographer Gordon Parks on assignment in...

The Place of Appalachia

...the state (except in its coercive apparatus of law enforcement) finds parallels across vast portions of rural Appalachia, where deindustrialization and disinvestment are no less severe.5Ronald D. Eller, Uneven Ground:...