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Southern Spaces

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

Race & Gender in the Latinx South

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement

Jason P. Theriot's American Energy, Imperiled Coast

County carnival showing a spinning ride.

White house trailer being devoured by rebar of new building.

French Broad River in flood.

Wide expanse of grass, trees, clouds with earthworks in rear.

1108 Dynamite Hill

Joseph Quintana and Mary Campbell Kitchens

In this short video, Jeff Drew situates his family home within the geography of the civil rights movement. The house was among several residences bombed by white supremacists from 1947–1965 in a neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama, that came to be known as Dynamite Hill.

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Dirt road going up a misty mountain.

Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey

Green house trailer as image for the cover of the Sunset Colonies book.

Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman

Muddied dress on a headless mannequin in store.

Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina

Book cover for Southern Underground Railroad. Black face silhouette on top of map.

A Southern Underground Railroad

Portrait of Malinda Maynor Lowery

Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery

Malinda Maynor Lowery, Steve Bransford, et al.

Lê Thị Kim Hoa (left) and Đỗ Phương Anh (right). Circa 1960 in Việt Nam.

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Gyanendra Pandey

On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Matthew Francis Rarey

Styrofoam Trump head as yard sign.

Our Backward Revolution

Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19

Louise E. Shaw, Heather E. Rodriguez, et al.

The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks

Andrew Amstutz, Jess Porter, et al.

The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd

Jericho Brown and Eric Solomon

Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

Mary E. Frederickson

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt

Anthony Martin and Steve Bransford

Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics

Encountering COVID

Michelle Fishburne

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective