Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
Call for Submissions Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, activists, media producers, community organizers, and patients to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...a much smaller and more informal scale than either of these. Files Cemetery in Hot Springs, AR, 2024. Screenshot from Google Earth. Map data created by and courtesy of Google....
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...and the CDC COVID-19 response. Additional support provided by the Consulate General of Canada to the U.S. Southeast. The Stand & Witness exhibition ran from June 17–October 25, 2024 at...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
..."freedom fighters." The Richmond Afro-American characterized the police action as "bestiality" and "ruthless savagery" and compared it to Hitler's persecution of Jews and Khrushchev's repression of Hungarian freedom fighters. The...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Pride Houston. There were two queer bookstores, a free monthly magazine, and several free weekly papers. Soon, I was working for one of those papers, distributing copies all over the...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
Southern Spaces: Malinda, tell us about your film Lumbeeland. Why and how did you come to work on this project? Malinda Maynor Lowery: Lumbeeland is a twenty-nine minute short narrative,...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...with lower-paid workers in Vietnam and Cambodia. Lewis W. Hine, "Hell's Half Acre," a row of houses at the edge of the mill settlement at Avondale, Birmingham, Alabama, 1910. Courtesy...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
2025 marks fifty years since the fall of Sài Gòn and the communist takeover of Laos, Cambodia, and Việt Nam. While Vietnamese American communities commemorate this anniversary year of the...