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

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....

Congregation

...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...

Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]

...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

The Change

...to transplant those seedlings to each hill in the field, the space for that particular plant and we watched as they would grow. Before all of this new age, new...

Sapelo Island Flyover

Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...to appreciate smelly old books, discolored newspapers, and indecipherable manuscripts. I blame my parents—after all, they planted the seed that is now blossoming into full-blown archive fever. #DareToBe promotional materials,...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...development projects that map new bastions of commerce onto existing urban footprints. Many mixed-use projects include residential neighborhoods replete with spaces targeting Atlanta's young creatives: performance venues for live music and art shows, community...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Trethewey discusses “Signs, Oakvale, Missisippi, 1941” and “Flounder” as well as landscapes in Gulfport and New Orleans Part 3: Trethewey discusses “Monument,” “Elegy for the Native...