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

Sonic Zora in Florida

...Stuckey, age 43, blind Negro preacher"). Both a playlist of sorts and an archival testimony to this sister's exhaustive performative dynamism, her mad flow, and her tireless and meticulous attention...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...any other public leaders. Brian Howard, "Religion in Africa: Tolerance and Trust in Leaders are High, but Many Would Allow Regulation of Religious Speech," Afrobarometer Dispatch no. 339 (2020), https://afrobarometer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Policy%20papers/ab_r7_dispatchno339_pap12_religion_in_africa.pdf....

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...has paved over the evidence. “Stony the Road We Trod” & “350,000”  The first section of Bey’s Elegy, “Stony the Road We Trod,” (a lyric from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...It coated everything. The trees around us looked like they'd been sprinkled with confectioner's sugar." "So people left," Lydde said. "Bought out by the coal company. Everyone except John. He...

Roadside Architecture

...I set myself the task of finding out what this new place looked like and recording some of those impressions on film. More important than seeing and recording what different...