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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.

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: An Excerpt

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

Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation

William A. Blair

Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930

An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History