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

The Black Belt

...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...of darkened cars.5"Drive-in theater," Wikipedia; "Interactive Statistics," Drive-ins.com, http://www.drive-ins.com/stats.htm. The drive-in's popularity was short-lived. By the 1960s, their numbers began to decline. In the 1970s, many fell victim to suburbanization....

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...daily, shipping exports "as far away as China" (27). "Profit and Liability vs. Time," October, 1969. Chart by Monsanto's Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Aroclors. Document from Abernathy...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...and New Jersey, as well as in Kenya, Egypt, China, England, Italy, and Russia, his photographs of Memphis, its suburbs, and the Delta are his most famous. He also worked...