When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...lost in time, its signs of modernity knocking incongruously against worn machines, buildings, and people. Walker Evans, in particular, achieved new levels of fame as the Museum of Modern Art...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...of work for over a year. He was in real estate development and had shared with my husband that he had lost almost everything they had. His wife Laura is...
Remembering Women’s Political Council Member Thelma Glass
Thelma McWilliams Glass died on July 24, 2012 at age ninety-six. She was the last surviving member of the Women’s Political Council (WPC), a group of African American women in Montgomery, Alabama, who...
Glocal Lounge
From the beginning of Southern Spaces in 2004, we've understood this journal as participating in critical regional studies. Southern Spaces publishes work that represents and analyzes many souths and southern...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...and TasP Disability Safer sex, sex positivity, and radicalism Intimacy, love, and affect Memory, loss, mourning, and memorial practices Queer Activism Development, evolution, and futures of gay rights movements Resistance...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...Kirby in Rural Worlds Lost that scholars in this emergent historical field were actually, as Fields put it, "rejoining a temporarily neglected line of inquiry rather than initiating a new...
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...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...lost everything. Then it all died. In the same summer of 1981 when the Sweet Gum Head closed, the New York Times reported on a "rare cancer seen in 41...