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

Deep Ellum Blues

...neighborhoods that might ensue. The wrecking ball in Dallas only existed to promote growth, now inextricably linked to white flight. The postwar generation of white suburbanites, like myself, had almost...

And the Prize Goes to...

...scholarly writing. Students worked with Allison Wright—who sifts through some nine thousand online submissions each year as the managing editor for Virginia Quarterly Review—to develop an early-semester workshop on strategies and...

A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave

...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...

Mississippi: State of Confession

Review The Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum mock-up from the 2 Mississippi Museums Project Fact Sheet, 2013. Mississippi says it is ready to confess some...