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

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...Snyder and Jack B. Moore, Pioneer Commercial Photography: The Burgert Brothers, Tampa, Florida (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1992), 12.  During the next four decades the firm stayed prosperous by continuing...

Zircon

...where spiders hide in rotting duff. Acknowledgements "Zircon", from DARK ENERGY by Robert Morgan, copyright © 2015 by Robert Morgan. Used by permission of Viking Books, an imprint of Penguin...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...Dr. Pratt's 1992 book of autobiographical and political essays, Rebellion: Essays 1980–1991, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. Her book of prose stories about gender boundary crossing, S/HE,...

Congregation

...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“contrabands,” enslaved African Americans who crossed into the federal lines, 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia.   Homes Broadside, 1873. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. The exhibit reveals...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...brick by brick."5Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 148. For residents whose homes were built—brick-by-brick—by fellow African Americans, from conception to financing to development...