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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

...Brothers, An Exhibit with an airplane made of cigars at the Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida, 1941. Catalog no.: B29-f-00003493. Burgert Brothers, A man serenading a señorita at the Davis...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...

The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]

...the appliquéd motifs and added further rows to echo the contours of the larger pieces. The background is quilted in "hanging diamonds," that is, rows of horizontal lines crossed with...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...March, and gave rise to the national clamor that assured the Voting Rights Act became law. Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965. Since 1965, the Edmund...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics," in Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948–1968 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997). Sears's rhetorical move...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...and Marxist Theory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985) with Ernesto Laclau, Dimensions of Radical Democracy (London: Verso, 1992), and For a Left Populism (London: Verso, 2018)....