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Southern Spaces

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

Articles are peer-reviewed, multimedia essays exploring the real and imagined spaces and places of the US South or making connections and comparisons between southern regions and other areas of the world.

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida

A Green Democratic Revolution

Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

Stephanie Bryan

Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations

Sonic Zora in Florida

Daphne A. Brooks

"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs

Stephanie Rountree

"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio

Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease

Barbara Ellen Smith

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

Book cover of A Question of Freedom by William Thomas

Reckoning with Enslavement

William G. Thomas III

Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

Cover of the book When Sunday Comes.

When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

Black and white photograph of Jim Miller writing 'Appalachian literature' on a chalk board.

Writing Appalachia

Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd

An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America

Grace Elizabeth Hale

Sundial created by John B. McLemore

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

Social Justice Environmentalism

Ellen Griffith Spears

Black and white drawing of person holding a mask

Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy

An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon