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

Unquiet Emmett Till

...too.) Mace's book is by turns useful, clear, thoughtful, and frustrating. Mace argues that the murder of this Chicago youth—who whistled at a white woman at a crossroads grocery store...

Fall Creek

...by a man and woman wed less than a month, who let hoe and plow handle slip from hands, left rows half done, crossed dark waves of bottomland to lie...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...only as Untitled, Shady Grove, Alabama, 1956, shows two nicely dressed women, hair neatly tucked into white hats, casually chatting through an open window, while the woman inside discreetly nurses...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...of the individual black man or woman, what happened in their everyday 'trivial' affairs, what took place within them—their yearnings, their problems, their frustrations, their dreams—were important, were worth taking...