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

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...privatized prisons, and low-income housing (and school) voucher programs serve as other examples.4For instance, see Pauline Lipman, New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...status, a jealous protector of his own archival materials related to their shared work for the WPA, and also a spectacularly harsh critic of Hurston's contradictory persona. See, for instance,...

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...1964 (Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 2008). In 2011 St. Augustine installed its first public civil rights monument adjacent to the market, honoring the struggle for equality on this site...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...from the relatively small southern and eastern communities of Tuskegee and Harlem. Such a play between similarity and difference provides the animating tension of the poem. For instance, Great-Uncle Paul's...