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Southern Spaces

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

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

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

Iliana Yamileth Rodriguez

Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape

Styrofoam Trump head as yard sign.

Our Backward Revolution

Maynard Jackson casts his vote as a group of smiling Black children watch through a window.

Front view of Whitney Plantation main house. Two stories with columns.

Map of Mississippi Gulf Coast

Cartoon showing buzzards bearing the names of the US Supreme Court justices who voted to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act perched on the bones of a carcass. Caption reads: 'Don't Leave Any Meat on the Bones'

Air mail envelope showing Alabama flag stamp and Tuscaloosa stamp

County carnival showing a spinning ride.

Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey

Maia Surdam

Marshall, North Carolina

Historian Maia A. Surdam considers the long career of documentary photographer and writer Rob Amberg. The essay centers on Amberg's recent book, Little Worlds (2024) the culmination of his trilogy of work that reveals the "texture and feeling of life" within Madison County, North Carolina.

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Shirley Franklin stands behind an office chair with a telephone to her ear. Papers are spread across the desk in front of her.

Trouble the Land:
The Rise of Black Political Power

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Front view of Whitney Plantation main house. Two stories with columns.

Looking Back to Move Forward

Color photo of Jesmyn Ward outdoors.

Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward

Book cover for Bloody Tuesday.

"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa

William Robert Billups

Cartoon showing buzzards bearing the names of the US Supreme Court justices who voted to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act perched on the bones of a carcass. Caption reads: 'Don't Leave Any Meat on the Bones'

How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act

Trouble the Land:
The City Too Busy to Hate

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Trouble the Land:
Crow and Molasses

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Trouble the Land:
Atlanta Student Movement

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Trouble the Land:
Prelude to the Atlanta Movement

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Announcing: Trouble the Land: A Personal History of the Civil Rights Movement in Five Southern Cities

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Book cover. Robert Macfalane. Is a River Alive?

The Nature of Rights

Ellen Griffith Spears

Ashé: Cultural Arts Cornerstone in New Orleans’ Central City

Victorial applying makeup.

Victoria

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