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...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...the Ozarks.27Timothy Jones, "Commentary on 'Cultural Conservation of Medicinal Plant Use in the Ozarks.'" Human Organization 59(1)(2001), 136-140. During the 1830s, the Indian Removal Act forced southeastern tribes onto the...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Achievement in Southern High Schools," in School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back? (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2005), 145. The challenges faced by contemporary students of color are not solely...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Richardson stone used in Peter N. Moore's World of Toil and Strife: Community Transformation in Backcountry South Carolina, 1750–1805 (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2007), 39, illustrates the problem....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Ecology," Southern Spaces, February 13, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/beasts-southern-wild-and-dirty-ecology. The trash in True Detective is not luminous, and the whimsy is full of terror. Light, here, is anticlimactic—as in the final battle...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....
Local Color
...nineteenth century South. And in no respect was the South more different than in its underlying political structures. Both before and after the war, the South had unusual accents and...
Remnants of Flannery
...see a ghost?"10Patricia Yaeger, "Ghosts and Shattered Bodies, or What Does it Mean To Still Be Haunted by Southern Literature?," South Central Review 2, no.1 (Spring 2005): 87. What do...