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

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...

Congregation

Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755  Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here.   National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...

Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration

...Souths Southern Labor Studies Association, New Orleans March 7–9, 2013 The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its 2013 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference theme, the...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....

Piedmont Blues

Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of  James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Welcome!

Welcome to the Southern Spaces blog. Since our first publication in 2004, Southern Spaces has been invested in peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access scholarship. Over the past few years, we have redesigned...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...