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

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...healthcare law varies across place.   The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...

Topeka newspapers

...putting on such "airs," and proceeded to adopt the regulation Dixie method for teaching the negro his place.... Published: 6 September 2007 © 2007 Brent M.S. Campney and Southern Spaces...

Submission Process

...focus on the role of space, place, or region within its main arguments? Does it deal with the US South in some way? How might this piece work in terms...

The Bulletin—April 24, 2013

...While Texas lawmakers suggest that increased regulation would not have prevented the blast, many labor and workplace safety groups are calling for increased regulations and more funding for OSHA enforcement....

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...

Vestibule

...strangest place you've ever . . . ?" No, I want to thank her for the truth of it. For knowing that the heart is holy even when our own...

Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy

  In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...

Just as Sure

...bad he didn't get that through my brother Willie's head. That fool found his level in the lowest places. Through all the bad, Daddy said still he was his son....

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...