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

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...lethal injection and the first African American executed since 1967.  McCarthy, convicted of robbing, beating, and stabbing to death a seventy-one-year-old emeritus professor of psychology, was injected with one large...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In Atlanta, two historic African American churches potentially stand in the way of plans to build a new, billion-dollar football stadium for...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...director Rick Sklar called the override a "terrible shame," stating that the group is prepared to sue in order to block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...and converse more with related interdisciplinary fields, such as Women's, African American, New West, and Pacific Islands studies. Perhaps Appalachian Studies could arrange joint conferences with other area studies or...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

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...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...and evanescent print forms. Hulan provides new knowledge about hymn writers, the role of African Americans in frontier hymnody, and the relationship between print, manuscript, and performance. The prominence of...