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

Whiskey and Geography

Shooting Creek Making Whiskey in the Backcountry Whiskey making, while rare in southern England, was highly developed in both Scotland and Ireland by the time of the Ulster emigration. We...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...his popularity among African Americans into momentum for Hillary.9For Toni Morrison's comment see Wikipedia, s.v. "Toni Morrison," accessed May 6, 2008, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison. Yet, before another year had passed, John Lewis,...

The US South in Global Contexts

Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...

No Place

Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt's books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990),...

Roadside Architecture

Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

The old women began arriving in the domino room of the Chauvin Library, where my dad suggested I1The blog post starts with the voice of Emma, since we were having...