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

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...sanctioned way of life. But the same enslaved Africans who introduced rice culture brought with them a virulent strain of falciparum malaria, and as they cleared swamps for expanded rice...

The Black Belt

...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...

Image Credits

...public domain. Title screenshot from "The Rejected," originally aired KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March...

Quilting Conversation

...assistant in Photography and Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum and managed web design, publications, and other media initiatives at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. She is...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. Image © Dawoud Bey. In the almost 160 years since the legal dissolution...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...the Municipal Art Gallery in Los Angeles. McClintock's current research interests include the examination of changes to art criticism and critical writing in the age of digital technology, and the...