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

Six Yellow Stanzas

...among these creamy freesia women - they all are. They let some men be dark, like the one they call Dark Gable, who could talk that talk the best. The...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...depending on a government's interest or willingness to police or prohibit.2The best examination of this concept I've found is in Eric Monkkonen's history of police, which stands to this day...

DOIs and Altmetrics

...By adopting digital object identifiers (DOIs) and partnering with Altmetric, Southern Spaces continues to model best practices in digital publishing. All Southern Spaces pieces now include DOIs that provide a...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...demeanor of Parks's subjects belies the injustice of the "separate but unequal"1Charlayne Hunter-Gault, "Doing the Best We Could with What We Had," in Gordon Parks: Segregation Story (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl,...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...to rethink our approach to Wikipedia and to train some of our newer editorial associates in best-practices. Then, in the middle of March, I got to be part of a...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

...think is the best way— Mitchell: —That’s right— Jim Bunkley: For the sound, that’s the way you have to play. Mitchell: So you learned off Blind Lemon records? Jim Bunkley:...

The State House Aflame 1833

...agonizing solicitude. As he tears flaming shingles from the steep pitch white folks move official records, furniture, and money from under that roof to a safer place, safer than any...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...I-26, 1995: Howard Jenkins:  "The new road, in our opinion, it's going to take traffic away from us even down there at the nearest place to an intersection in this...