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

Submission Guidelines

...Videos use visual—as opposed to textual or rhetorical—techniques to advance a critical argument. The three types of videos we generally publish are Ethnographic: visual scholarship that is concerned with the...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...traditional sources and deep archival work. But digital methods give me more tools to do what we’re all trying to accomplish, which is to answer questions. It allows me to...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...elements of all of them. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936–1940 http://www.loc.gov/collection/federal-writers-project/about-this-collection/ This collection includes digital scans and full-text versions of records created by the Folklore...

Finding Media

...film, and many—though not all—are digitized and available for public use. Creative Commons: Creative Commons allows users to license their own work for public use as an alternative to ordinary...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...had lived there? Those Xs raised questions without answers, and although the symbol was strong, I filed it all away as a memory of Floyd. Almost seven years later the...

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...Myths (1994), which contains selected essays from the annual volumes. Through this international network, she has served as a mentor for many individual researchers, both academic and self-trained. Mary Black's...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...also about relationships, personal expression, detail and texture, framing, and curiosity about how something "real" might look as a photograph. My work is also about change and, to some degree,...

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...