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

Love and Death in Mississippi

...Privacy & Security Act). Top, HB 1523 Is Anything but a "Warm Welcome." Graphic by ProtectThyNeighbor.org. Courtesy of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Bottom, Same-sex couples per...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...and after a series of heart problems, he died suddenly two weeks ago at 53. In an interview three years ago for American Routes Tuba Fats acknowledged the difficulty and...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...join eighteen other states that have introduced similar laws requiring voter identification at the polls this year. According to The Boston Globe, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas executive...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...

Glocal Lounge

...imaginary of the US small town contributes to the ideology of American empire, author Ryan Poll offers a quick overview of the term: At the conclusion of his canonical essay,...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...challenge to homogeneity and a celebration of heterogeneity of cultures, people, and places. Could it be that Tejano and Mexican fishing practices joined Cajun, Anglo, and African American ones at...