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

Dirty Little Story

...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...

Mapping Souths

...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...

Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives

...(2019): 21–37, https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2018.1468745; and Tara L. Parker and Kathleen M. Neville, "The Influence of Racial Identity on White Students' Perceptions of African American Faculty," The Review of Higher Education 42,...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013);...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...