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

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway.        The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...

Reckoning with Enslavement

Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...

Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts

...Courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, digital ID loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.00338/. Folklorist Joshua Clegg Caffery's inaugural book, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings (2013),...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...Allen (who was also my dissertation director) suggested that primary source materials could be complemented by the creation of an online vehicle for scholarship. From our first conversations about founding...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...and culture. This essay organizes and explores online documentary works pertaining to Ybor City in its heyday. Map of Hillsborough County within Florida Map of the City of Tampa within...