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

Fall Creek

...old wives' tale, water’s pulse pulsing what seed might be sown, or just her need to let go the world awhile, let the creek wash away every burden her life...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...both in the United States and Great Britain. The story of Sunbelt conservatism has in many ways been this struggle between the movement's ego and its id, between the thoughtful...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...gulls overhead trailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare— all the way to Ship Island. What we see first is the fort, its roof of grass a lee— half reminder of the...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...with a ballad sung on the picket line at the Brookside mine in Harlan County, Kentucky. Noting the importance of music in many everyday activities and locales, Gaventa, Greatrex, and...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...court, since District Attorney Hillar Moore III found no evidence of any crimes committed. Louisiana is not alone in having anti-sodomy laws still on the books: it is "illegal" to...

Negotiating Black Identities

Video   Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...

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...