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

1108 Dynamite Hill

...Drew and Dr. King, along with local Birmingham civil rights leaders such as Fred Shuttlesworth and Arthur Shores, worked closely together to tear down Birmingham's segregated zoning ordinances, paving the...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...land are shown in silhouette, health effects of chemicals are paired with faceless anatomical diagrams, not residents using their inhalers. It is only in the glossary, which features a few...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...program's new national director, "mere written transcriptions did not provide enough detail and ambience," and so he turned to Hurston and crew to turn up the volume in the wetlands....

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...B. Du Bois, and directs our ears to the more powerful, and at times less legible, “wild notes” of the enslaved, composed in part by the “screams lodged deep inside”...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...Romantic landscapes of Ansel Adams and others. By the 1970s, Evans's photographs made with a large format camera seemed out of step with a post-civil rights movement South where even...