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

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...island. In addition to ongoing environmental study, extensive archaeological research has occurred at St. Catherines with regard to Native American settlements, the Spanish mission of Santa Catalina de Guale, and...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...© Eggleston Artistic Trust. In a William Eggleston photograph currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a young African American woman wearing a lime green dress and a...

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...the African American and low-income white neighborhoods of West Anniston. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 76. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. During World War II, the Chemical Warfare Service set up...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007 ARC/ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic," Scientific American, February 2, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-can-and-cannot-do-in-a-time-of-pandemic/.  Sports celebrities and other influencers joined in; some publicly declined vaccinations for spurious or unspoken reasons. In...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...