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

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the European Union also issued warnings to travelers to both Mississippi and North Carolina (in the wake of North Carolina's similarly draconian Public Facilities...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Seaberg talked about befriending and filming J.B. Lenoir in 1964. The Seabergs hoped Lenoir's exposure on Swedish TV would generate more European gigs but the quality of their recorded sound...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...by Rosanne Cash, "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by the Byrds, and "Stop This World" by Mose Allison. Theotis Taylor, Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 1977. Photograph by Beverly J. Robinson. Courtesy of...

Place, Time, and Memory

...College of Art and Design. An enormously productive and prolific artist, Christenberry's work is widely exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries in the United States and in Europe....

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

...European styles of realism, Biggers's later work began to incorporate more stylized and symbolic elements drawn from African traditions, creating a hybrid style of realistic and abstract forms. Biggers also...

Residues of Border Control

...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...