Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...South, 2010. Troubled Ground is an excellent addition to this subgenre. Beautifully narrated, it is rich in detail and nuance, while also attentive to the larger context surrounding the story....
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...is that monster, the horrifying and grotesque, and yet also strangely romantic space of American racial fantasy. Like anyone else who has studied the history of the US South, when...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...(Norton, 2000), among others. Rankin writes frequently about photography and the documentary tradition and his photographs have been widely exhibited. Publication Update In January 2019, Southern Spaces updated this publication as part...
The Bulletin—February 11, 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 living...
Glocal Lounge
From the beginning of Southern Spaces in 2004, we've understood this journal as participating in critical regional studies. Southern Spaces publishes work that represents and analyzes many souths and southern...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...then shipped to the South where it was used . . . to package the cotton [and] to secure bales of cotton to ships. . . . Those ships would sail out...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
Bodies and Souls
...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...