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

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...work, the large-scale landscape photography featured in Elegy asks viewers to see, and hear, the haunting presence of slavery projected against the landscape without the anchoring presence of Black bodies...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...was to characterize Flaherty's work. New History of Documentary Film (NY: Continuum, 2008).  In order to create the narrative frame central to his documentary mode, and to celebrate the exotic landscape he...

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

...years of planning and a 2009 amendment to a City Code that barred new monuments in the plaza celebrating historical events occurring after 1821.16David Nolan, interview with the author, March...