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

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...assisting mostly middle-class families but their analysis lumps together zip codes with median household incomes with those more than twice the state median. In Florida, Step Up for Students expanded...

"Aint that Something?"

Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...with well-documented Irish, Italian, and Polish whiteness strategies, he might have done much to further a larger conversation about white racial formation and reformation. Instead, he offers on this matter...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...came to describe Irish immigrant sailors whose jig dance was known as 'the buck.'"27Dance Teacher Magazine, www.dance-teacher.com. George Mitchell discusses the buck dancing tradition of the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. Recorded...