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

Mobile, Alabama images

Mobile, Alabama: Outdoor Table and Chair, Mobile, Alabama The building in the background is the twenty-eight-story Riverview Plaza Hotel. View from the USS Alabama A World War II battleship, the...

Vestibule

...that, in the darkened air of that chapel, fluttered its dusty wings around our heads.   Published in The Boatloads (2008) Published: 24 November 2008 © 2008 Dan Albergotti and...

The Border South

...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...defense spending and the Sunbelt got the disproportionate share, whether it was defense contractors in southern California, aircraft manufacturers in Dallas and Atlanta, or nuclear reactors in South Carolina. As...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...emergency and deploy pesticides across the metro region via aircraft for the first time since 1966, much to the chagrin of many residents worried about the potentially hazardous side effects...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...like the music, was the air that his ears breathed. This being said, it would be wrong not to acknowledge that this southern literary emergence in 1929—so surprising to the...

Timber, Equity, and Ethics

...of The Least of These: Fair Taxes and the Moral Duty of Christians (2003) and "An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics" published in the Alabama Law Review, Fall...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice. You can pair this episode with Wilkerson's Southern Spaces essay "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachia." Recently Published...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

Theories of Time and Space

Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...