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

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Musical Journey (New York: Amistad, 2003), 161.  Wenders wanted the old footage to be "the backbone of the second half of [the] film," revealing more than any contemporary interview.2Ibid. Steve...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...their newsletter, Skip Two Periods, to "Discovering Our Heritage." The writer, "B. F.," wrote about finding her heritage at the Lesbian Herstory Archives in Brooklyn, in Jonathan Ned Katz's book...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...Flannery "The Enduring Chill." The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971: 362. This description —from the "red road" to the "cow pastures" and "pleasant columns"— resembles Andalusia, as...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...stereotypes than medical knowledge. Irish immigrants brought cholera, while Jewish ones infected New Yorkers with typhus. Riots erupted as a result of perceptions that Chinese men spread venereal disease. These...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...