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

A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State

...19, 2014, http://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/laff-review-arthur-jafa-conducts-multilayered-exploration-of-blackness-in-dreams-are-colder-than-death-159613/. Although two years have passed since my first viewing of Jafa's Dreams, Spillers's provocative statements, along with the film's powerful bridging of the lyrical and the sonic,...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...election, novelist Colson Whitehead published a characteristically biting New York Times editorial entitled "The Year of Living Postracially": "One year ago today, we officially became a postracial society. Fifty-three percent of the voters opted...

Brushes with War

...Brown, whose assault on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry that year seemed an omen of war. When a larger meteor penetrated the earth's atmosphere the following year, the artist...

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...and the rest of the Americas, played a fundamental role in the formation of its society and culture" (6). "Carte de la decouverte faite l'an 1673 dans l'Amerique septentrionale," 1681. Earliest...