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

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...black people made a living for themselves and their families, Pruitt-Igoe was instead regarded as dangerous, impoverished, and ultimately beyond saving. Over forty years later, this perception reigned not only...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...Edmund Pettus Bridge Brings Fame, Fortune, to Selma," Montgomery Advertiser, January 5, 1992. Binding memories to landscape, the bridge at Selma locates transitions from one time and space to another....

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...the promise of a coherent and distinctive effort but whose constitutive features remain contested. Hey Y'all, November 10, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Gregory Morris. Creative Commons license CC...

Darkly

...first appeared in The Southern Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...