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

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...1724 Code Noir. Aubert describes the law, which prescribed "inherent differences between white and black Catholics" (42), as "the most racially exclusive colonial law in the French Empire" (23). Other...

Encountering COVID

...up on July 31. I knew that on August 1 I would have no house, no spouse, no job, and no kids to take care of. And the big critical...

On Fair Use

...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...Zawadski case in my home state, I cannot help but ponder "to live with equal dignity." What is at stake in overturning "religious freedom" laws is more than the "freedom"...