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

Mississippi Delta

Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

Commentary An online search using the keywords "COVID-19" and "lessons" turns up an astonishing volume and assortment of information: thousands of commentaries, news stories, scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs. The...

Sonic Zora in Florida

Songs Cover the Landscape Yet another program housed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Federal Writers Project (FWP), invited Zora Neale Hurston in 1938 to join the editorial staff...

The US South in Global Contexts

Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...