"Little Switzerland"
"LITTLE SWITZERLAND, A Private Park that is Visited by a Large Number of People" "In considering the many improvements that are going on in various parts of the city, Little...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...justice system and prison are frequently sensationalized when they are represented in popular culture and public discourse. The post-prison re-entry process is seldom part of anyone's depiction or discussion. Shannon...
Welcome!
...for discussing our digital publication processes. Our blog will: Explore our publication process. We will describe our editorial processes, interview authors, and write about how a Southern Spaces publication is...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...of the artists, rappers, DJs, producers, record labels, and community personalities that played central roles in the defining of an early local rap/bounce sensibility––from the little known group, New York...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...they would be publishing three days per week and focusing on online news; all four papers are owned by the media company Advance Publications. The Alabama Legislature passed Senator Gerald Dial's...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...hastily written poetry, he argues, often engaged with the politics of the moment. It also engaged with the politics of place, addressing local and state communities, occasionally to the point...
The Border South
...across Maryland and western Virginia into Pennsylvania and Ohio. The stunning insurrection led by Nat Turner in 1831 put the border region's white population on high alert and led to...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...to present the southern writer in "as mean and poor folksy [a light] as possible" (14 Nov 1959). Of a photographer's pending visit to Andalusia, O'Connor writes: "Tuesday Miss Betsy...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...III and Paige Knight. Detail of stereograph. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. The staged image includes a passbook from the New Orleans Gas Works...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...