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

Nigger Street 1937

McIntosh Street the sign reads like the apple     red but not red delicious red     but red like redeye gravy on grits at Gus's or red like stoplights but...

California Creek, North Carolina

...undercut the highway over time, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Sign placed on the job site by the contractor, Gilbert Southern, encouraging higher quotas in an...

Mars Hill, North Carolina

New Waffle House NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill, NC, 2004. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Signage on NC 213 in Mars Hill, Mars Hill NC, 2004. Photo courtesy...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...lived before prison, with no new defenses or support against that environment. Shannon Brockman in his Foundry room, Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket, 2009. Two factors significantly help ex-inmates...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...the Alabama Department of Transportation, describes the significance of the attack near Anniston: "The incident served to strengthen the resolve for the civil rights movement."3Historical marker placed by the Theta...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...Caribbean, were part of a significant religious movement, a fact that a cursory check of the local black press would have revealed. Readers need to approach these sections of the...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...intimidation signifies their resistance to imperial power exercised in medicalized forms. Earlier incarnations of resistance can be found in border folk medicinal practices, suggested by the brief mention of curandero...