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

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...as a hate crime. As the Chicago Tribune reported, McMillian was "one of the first viable, openly gay" candidates in the state.  On February 7, 2013, one hundred forty-eight years after the...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Seaberg holds up the reel of J.B. Lenoir footage she and her husband shot in Chicago in 1965. The Soul of a Man, 2003. In the documentary tradition, archival footage...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...bedroom: things that are yellow and yellow alone.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes

Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...