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

Birth Right

...Statistical Profile. Chicago, IL.  A 2009 report by the Health Resources and Services Administration found that "approximately 888,000 people, or 19 percent of Alabama's population, cannot access a primary care...

Sweep

...for Albert Dotson, Myles Hammond, the quick tackle of our football team, For Don Appleton, the slow, redheaded one. By the time the rack is exhausted, I'm thinking if I...

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

...Spaces, January 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/unhappy-trails-big-easy-public-spaces-and-square-called-congo. Trethewey, Natasha. "Geography." Southern Spaces, January 11, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. Saikku, Mikko. "Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta....

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...like the honesty of his approach. ("Mr. Thompson decided to use wishful thinking as his guide," wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times.) Thompson refers to his task as...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...Digital Scholarship. His documentary feature film The Well-Placed Weed is available on the PBS website and app. Michael Page is lecturer in Geospatial Sciences and Technology at Emory University. Leotie...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...they are up to no good. It's a lighthearted and bloody good time that has a lot to say about conceptions of Appalachia that are propagated through popular culture and...

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...

Nigger Street 1937

McIntosh Street the sign reads like the apple     red but not red delicious red     but red like redeye gravy on grits at Gus's or red like stoplights but...