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

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...Since the 1970s, queer history projects have flourished across the United States. New archives are forged from the remains stowed away in activists' attics and closets. Oral history collections are...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...through the use of textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions.  The COVID-19 series examines relationships between pandemic public health and specific geographies in the US and global...

Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America

...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...

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...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

...government executives, most notably the 45th President, who failed to respond effectively and exerted unprecedented political interference; (2) a legacy of outbreak responses in the United States that are highly...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), the World Bank, and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the organization implemented two COVID-19 response projects in Dhaka and Cox's Bazar (two of the...

The Chesapeake Bay

...human systems and the close interaction between environmental shifts and human societal, economic, and even political change. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and its...

Place, Time, and Memory

...College of Art and Design. An enormously productive and prolific artist, Christenberry's work is widely exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries in the United States and in Europe....

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...