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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

..."The Restraints: Open and Hidden," Life Magazine, September 24, 1956, reproduced in Gordon Parks, 106. Parks took more than two-hundred photographs during the week he spent with the family. All...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...breath, not calm, but a sharp and sudden gasp, like the sound of a drowning body finally breaking through the line between water and air. This sound echoes Christina Sharpe’s...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...

Image Credits

...public domain. Title screenshot from "The Rejected," originally aired KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March...

The Change

...to hold a six pack on ice. In the one hundred, fifteen degree   summer heat   with air   so thick with moisture you drink as you breathe. Before the...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...a wicker chair, lived like a vine growing outward through children. She made biscuits for breakfast, kneaded the dough with fat hands, washed clothes of six kids and a grandchild...