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

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...activists. Others, as exemplified in Lynching Beyond Dixie, have researched lynching outside the South. Historians of the West have long studied vigilantism, but new scholarship on lynching draws connections between...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...one another. A soundscape loop presents a range of first person commentaries, including WPA oral histories, about slave sales. In its new location, the sack is hung entirely vertically, with...

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...spots" that change in intensity as events occur in specific sites. At the time, this seemed very new and different and it didn't seem complicated to identify characters, events, and...