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

A Green Democratic Revolution

...libidinal dimension. It consists in federating a diversity of democratic demands and its construction necessitates a principle of articulation, a "hegemonic signifier" around which common affects can crystallize. Thanks to...

Bodies and Souls

...clinic would give me an opportunity to explore issues around race, religion, and sexuality. But as I visited clinic after clinic, I saw that the most prevalent and overwhelming healthcare...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...the strides to the other side mean? Here handmade bricks like colorful quilts laid into the ground cover graves of slaves. Where is Sisyphus? I think I see him in...

California Creek, North Carolina

...and say, 'Something's different. I just passed through a portal.' Glyph erected by Iktome, seen in the background, blowing a diggie-do, California Creek, NC, 1998. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg....

Fort Scott newspapers

Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...

Ellipsis

...ground, burnt down by the distant white cousin who no doubt heard the ghosts humming and fussing, rattling, ratcheting, singing. Burn! she screamed. So it did. The fussing quieted. In...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...within black Protestant traditions, as did the religiously motivated activism of Mississippi stalwarts such as Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, and Medgar and Myrlie Evers. Breaking ground on the Mississippi...