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

Gone With the Wind

...lights had come up at last in the room which is not here anymore where the last train runs again through the miniature town, past the old brick courthouse, its...

J-Mill on Regulating

...be incorporated with the records' [sic] original lyrics which often changes the whole concept of the song." "The concept of mic checkin' has been and still is widely used by...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...have drawn from the same fabric collection for a "Save All" quilt which she made during the same period. In that quilt, Mary also used a variety of brown prints,...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...hat and bedsheet robe, and even the house is gone, the room where you played by radio light, slowly casting off your names. * Now derelicts keep the rails from...

The Crowd He Becomes

...the paperboys, ready to throw when the dark is right. See him Christmas, few years back, outside the preacher's house, thin fuse of cigarette, newspaper spread on the bus protests....

Darkly

...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...

Quilting Conversation

...Marquetta Johnson Marquetta Johnson, fourth-generation quilter and textile artist, discusses how her quilting techniques have developed over a lifetime, and how she uses her creativity to inspire new generations of...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...for plaintiff because he did not derive his income from whites, because he regularly paid his poll tax, and because—unlike most blacks—he was a registered Democrat who could plausibly claim...