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

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...When David Wharton asked if I would be interested in photographing the Mississippi Coast with him and Bruce West on the one year anniversary of Katrina's landfall, I agreed, not...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515814287/heres-whats -become-of-a-historic-all-black-town-in-the-mississippi-delta. Businesses and bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ca. 1912–1920. Photograph by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of Archives...