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

The Black Belt

...decline. What had been one of America's richest and most politically powerful regions became one of its poorest. In the 1950s and 1960s, long-oppressed African American residents of the Alabama...

"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying

...tentatively. It's this ambition that warrants respect when watching Franco's first foray into adapting the work of America's most notoriously unadaptable writer, William Faulkner. Unfortunately, this same ambition is what...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...is now well documented by scholars, was foundational in the evolution of vaudeville, radio, and television programming in America. As Spike Lee's 2000 film Bamboozled makes clear, minstrelsy's images and...