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

Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)

Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...the bandannas with railroad men, and the simplicity of its construction may have seemed appropriate for a small boy. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...

Bricking the Church

Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...there are Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Studies, and Creative Writing. She lives with her partner, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg, in Jersey City, New Jersey. For many years when...

Negotiating Black Identities

...the Speaker Karyn Lacy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research include race and ethnicity, the sociology of culture, suburban sociology, and stratification....

The Bulletin—September 4, 2012

...reelection campaign, because Charlotte is a city without unionized hotels in a state which has the lowest percentage of union members in the nation.  As we continue to think about...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...