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

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...global landscape. Poor Monkey’s Lounge has been featured as a cover photograph of the Oxford American, a two-page spread in Annie Leibovitz’s American Music, photos in Vanity Fair and Esquire...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...make people aware of past injustices.1Karen Halttunen, “Groundwork: American Studies in Place—Presidential Address to the American Studies Association, November 4, 2005,” American Quarterly, 58.1 (March 2006), 1-15. This is very...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...it for the first time since the 1870s. In 1930, New York was the most populous state, and California was only the sixth largest. By 1990, California had almost twice...

Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love

...9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html. The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can...