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

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...and even during the Great Depression in the 1930s, but Jean's interest in photography waned. Sometime in the early 1940s he sold his interest in the company to his brother...

Finding Media

...1923, like this image from Lewis Hine, is in the public domain. Fortunately for us, work produced by the US government is also in the public domain. This satellite image...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...my motivation. Why was I here? What right did I have to assume that I could represent in my documentary work a culture I knew little about? I was sometimes...

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...