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

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...is Kappa Alpha Professor of English. In 2010 a special issue of Southern Quarterly, edited by Jesse Graves, was devoted to essays about his work. About the Interviewer Emma Lirette,...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales. The video recordings filmed between 1974 and 1976 in South Wales and Appalachia set the stage for John Gaventa's later work with the Highlander Research...

Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley

...a brick wall a hundred years later, I can make out Cuba Libre! and Remember the Maine! I don't remember the Maine, only that a Cuba Libre is made of rum, Coke, and lime....

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...the US and Global South, edited by Dr. Mary E. Frederickson. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Mary Ann Robertson at seditor@emory.edu. See the Southern Spaces...

A Mess of Poke

...heartbeat, dizziness, and possibly seizures, coma and death. Sure enough, according to Jean Weese, a food scientist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension service, "The roots, berries, seeds and mature stems...

Congregation

Believe the report of the Lord; Face the things that confront you.     Marquee (front and back),      Greater Mt. Rest Baptist Church,      Gulfport, Mississippi, May 2009   Witness...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

In November of 2011 I wrote for Southern Spaces on the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, a key marker and catalyst of the growing presence of Sacred Harp singing in...