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

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...understand, they had been looking for another place to go, but it was not ready yet. So the Jacksons, two houses down, just opened up their garage, and they started...

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...

The Dirt Eaters

...she was preg nant: "Musta ate chalk, Musta ate starch, cuz why else did her babies look so white?" The Ex pert: "In ano ther gener ation I sus pect...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...clothed. Mother Jones, he pointed out, always referred to "the family of labor" because unions looked out for households and communities, not just individuals.  Attendees at the rally for union...

Audio Transcript

...♪ Hallelujah! ♪   [Kee] ♪ You’re gonna look for me ♪   [Choir] ♪ Hallelujah! ♪   [Kee] ♪ And I’ll be gone on home ♪   [Choir] ♪...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...in the so-called annals of history, and that we have to look in unexpected places to find our past. Lesbians in Roanoke in the 1980s devoted an entire issue of...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...