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

Elegy for the Native Guards

...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye.   Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...

Artist Repertoire Index

...Greens What’s the Matter with the Mill? Bussey, George Henry (1969) Blues Around My Bed Catch a Greyhound Come on Around to My House, Baby Freight Train Blues Grieving Over...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Howell Homes, center, Techwood Homes, left, Georgia Institute of Technology, bottom. Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940. Photocopy of photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,63--2. View of playground...

How I Shed My Skin

...inferiority, castigating blacks as lazy, ugly, smelly, dirty, sloppy, unruly, faulty, sorry. Seemingly told in jest, they united whites around racist ideology. "When we laughed at the joke[s], we accepted...

#209, Long Meter

1) We are a garden walled around,    Chosen and made peculiar ground,    A little spot enclosed by grace    Out of the world’s wild wilderness.   2) Like...