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

The Black Belt

...held a variety of local, state, and national political offices. With the mid-1870s however, came the restoration of white rule. Then, "for a hundred years," wrote Selma civil rights attorney...

A City Divided

...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...third section. Part 2: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Centreville, Alabama, 2004 Part 3: Minnie Bruce Pratt, Centreville, Alabama, 2004 About Minnie Bruce Pratt Pratt holds a bachelor´s degree from the University...

Congregation

Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755  Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here.   National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...flatness, what is present alongside what has gone, low fertile valleys juxtaposed with the dry peaks. The opposites are coequal and mutually dependent, elemental to how we see. The last...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...still can function as racial partitions. Photography is often implicated in this demarcation of space. (top left) Fun!; (top row middle) Unsold houses amid red clay; (top right) Mimicked eaves;...