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

Love and Death at Second-Line

..."It'll be easier at the vendor outside." He said, "No man, this is Papa Joe's place, buy it from him." I waved the bills over my head, Joe himself saw...

Congregation

...chorus of marquees: God is not the author of fear; Without faith we is victims; Sooner or later everybody comes by here.   Tower This week they are painting the...

The Liminal Site

...of a "radical expansion" of Green Springs Park (now George Ward Park) at the base of the mountain.2Olmsted Brothers, A System of Parks and Playgrounds for Birmingham: Preliminary Report upon...

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...relations in Georgia were dominated by white paranoia and stories of runaway slaves taking up arms with Native Americans, Spaniards and Britons in Florida. As cotton replaced rice as Georgia's...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...William Richardson and Mary Davie were removed from their original sites in the churchyard and placed alongside the path, facing south, each protected by a sheath of granite that partly...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...in Environmental Policy and NEPA: Past, Present, and Future, eds. Ray Clark and Larry W. Canter (Boca Raton, FL: St. Lucie Press, 1997), 25–50, 37. Postscript NEPA's longstanding requirements for...