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

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...the time of the 1967 decision, fifteen other (mostly southern) states (Alabama, Arkansas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, West Virginia, Missouri, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Delaware)...

Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis

...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...just southerners) took up Confederate symbols as signs of rebellion. As the southern rock of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd filled the soundscape, Eggleston could not resist playing this...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...band of states that stretches westward from the former Confederacy through the southwest to southern California. From L.B.J. to George W. Bush, every president has come from one of these...

The Liminal Site

...Topographically if not quite culturally, Birmingham sits where the post-plantation Deep South in which I lived and worked from 1995 to 2010 meets the Appalachian South near which I grew...

Editorial Style Guide

...a whole is to simply use "the South" or "southern" whenever possible. South: Southern Spaces prefers writing that treats "the South" as an imagined geography that has had important political...