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

Submission Guidelines

...accept submissions that perpetuate or promote social inequality. While we publish many experienced writers and photographers, our journal is dedicated to supporting graduate students, early-career scholars, and activists throughout the...

The Nature of Rights

...nature” is a strategy as much a movement, a strategy that can promote democracy through local involvement.[17] In this era of increasing assaults on the democratic rights of humans, expanding...

Editorial Style Guide

...Race, and Place in the South": "We place southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South." Use a comma when identifying a speaker. A woman at the Immigrant Workers...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...hispanic mother and almost saved by a cop who brought from his pocket a shirt's worth of proof before the woman vanished with her English, before the psychics started rowing...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...

Off-Season

...he had me start out on a crew full of men. Men who’d never seen a woman work that way in town, first time I had a chance to operate...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...of modesty and humility prescribed by her upcountry Presbyterian faith. She wore a brown silk dress for her wedding, but as a young woman, she chose to wear cotton dresses...