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

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...

Genres of Southern Literature

...stylistic conventions that can delineate the shape and presentation of a text (the text's genre, in other words) but also understands these matters as inevitably representing and promoting specific versions...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...