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

Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler

...his long pilgrimage out of the depression-wracked Deep South, died Monday, June 3, 2013, in Nashville from complications following a stroke. He was eighty-eight. His career-long commitment to the biblically-remembered...

The Bulletin—June 19, 2013

...education, health care, and social programs, as well as proposed voter ID laws. Nearly five hundred protestors have been arrested so far. Though Governor Pat McCrory has characterized protests as "fueled by...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...the last couple of years are directly observing a response to Covid. Images of health care workers, vaccine researchers, shuttered businesses and empty offices, empty stands at athletic events, all...

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...