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

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...provoked Bull Connor's overreaction, where they were hosed and chased by police dogs, watched by the world.14Selma native Joanne Bland, later a co-founder and director of the National Voting Rights...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...where you wait beneath a stone and a secret name. * There are angels. There are angels! you said: They guard and watch. Tonight, their sudden wings multiply the city's...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...love's lodging tonight I'd draw nigh And in her lily-white arms I'd lie there all night And I'd watch the little windows for the dawning of day. Well I strolled...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...film, we simply watch this collector, Joe Bussard, as he listens to records in his basement. Director Edward Gillan includes one reenactment, not of an event in the life of...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...classes watched high dramas, vaudeville acts, minstrel shows, and, at times, motion pictures. In lynching Potter in the opera house, therefore, these working men were acclaiming their act of vengeance...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...

"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...