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

The Change

...year dusters sprayed malathion over our clustered bodies,   perspiring while we primed bottom lugs, those ground level leaves of tobacco, and it clung to us with black tar so...

Submission Process

...how Southern Spaces makes sure that we’re sending the highest quality work to peer reviewers.   Once authors have received their peer review feedback, we begin the final round of...

Talk Radio, D.C.

...salt mackerel. The next morning my fever broke and the fish was all cooked.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

  The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...bedroom: things that are yellow and yellow alone.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...

Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes

Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...