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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.

Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Gyanendra Pandey

Our Backward Revolution

The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks

Andrew Amstutz, Jess Porter, et al.

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