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

Antietam

We all went in a yellow school bus, on a Tuesday. We sang the whole way up. We tried to picture the bodies stacked three deep on either side of...

Old Elementary

...the first school he despised, in the despised small town where we grew up. I drive past it every time I go back there, the building abandoned years ago by...

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

...days it was going to be a school bus with our children. So we agree 100% that something needed to be done. All those tractor-trailers on that mountain is just...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...