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

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...October 15, 2008. New Orleans-based American Routes radio host Nick Spitzer refers to them as "conjuring a cross between the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's...

Birdhouses

Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...Gay American History, through the National Women's History Project, and in the published letters shared among nineteenth-century women. She also suggested that lesbian history is found in our families. "Write...

Zircon

...Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award Medal from the Daughters of the American Revolution. As a recipient of...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...

Country Music Scholar

...between “southern” and “American” music, addressing questions of authenticity and fusion Part 6: Malone discusses tensions between themes of rambling and rootedness in country music Part 7: Malone explores how contemporary country...

Image Credits

...Davis / Just Out. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0.  "In Memory of all Puerto Ricans," panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Display, Organization of American States Art Museum of the...

Putting up Beans

...filled with great leaves of tobacco, green as beans. Though soon to be gold and brown cured. Now nowhere near Winston or Salems. Not even close to American Spirit. More...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

...is the human voice, and are we not of interest to each other?   Published in American Sublime (Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2005). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander...

Atchison newspaper

...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...