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

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On March 3, 2013, doctors announced that a baby born in rural Mississippi had been "functionally cured" of HIV infection. The...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...degrees latitude; the border would then be drawn due west until it reached the Pacific Ocean. The original boundary was marked by hatchet marks on trees, strategically placed rocks, and...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Director, Min. Cassandra Greene, Director Ms. Hattie Lawson, Chair, Athens Area Human Relations Council Reenactment Timeline 3:00 p.m. - Leave First African Baptist Church for visitation of the Malcom and Dorsey gravesites. 4:45...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...so intense that they are forced to acknowledge their impotence."7Katz, 57.  It is the realization of this powerlessness that, in turn, becomes curative. Katz concludes: "Potency is the Lord's —...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...in New Mexico, though a strong essay that presents a similar argument to that made in Lynching Beyond Dixie, seems out of place here. The editors do not claim that...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...would write my love a letter that she might understand. I'd send it by the waters where the islands overflow And I'd think of my darling wherever she'd go. Way...