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

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...South. We encourage interdisciplinary perspectives, critical approaches to space and place, and work that foregrounds the pandemic perspectives and experiences of BIPOC and other marginalized groups. "Remember," 2021. Collage by...

Roadside Architecture

...curious strangers. As someone who could claim membership in both groups and who possessed a certain set of photographic skills, it seemed inevitable that I pack the cameras in the...

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...

Birmingham, Alabama images

...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...

Jackson, Mississippi images

Jackson, Mississippi: Speeding Car, Farish Street Just a few blocks west of the State Capitol is Farish Street, at the heart of what was once Jackson's main African American business...