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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.

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

Reckoning with Enslavement

William G. Thomas III

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

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

Claudrena N. Harold

Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt

Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd

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

Grace Elizabeth Hale

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

Social Justice Environmentalism

Ellen Griffith Spears

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

An Excerpt from Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia

Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas