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

When the Border Crossed Me

...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

© Brian Gauvin, Pratt Drive and Robert E. Lee Avenue at the breach in the 17th Street Canal Levee, Lakeview, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 27, 2005. Seven years ago, from...

The Place of Appalachia

...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...photography's historical role in the construction of African American identity. As a relatively new mechanical medium, training in early photography was not restricted by racially limited access to academic fine...

Naming Each Place

...work of other black writers Part 3: Trethewey and Brown discuss writing against the New Critics Part 4: Trethewey and Brown discuss working and hanging out in New Orleans and more Part...

Quilting Conversation

...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...