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

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...

Darkly

...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...like the music, was the air that his ears breathed. This being said, it would be wrong not to acknowledge that this southern literary emergence in 1929—so surprising to the...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...Southern Spaces uses Wikipedia pages as hyperlinks in our articles. While we favor scholarly open-access materials or well-curated collections of primary documents for our links, we often end up choosing Wikipedia...