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

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...with a different director for each episode. Like Ken Burns's Jazz (2000), The Blues tied itself to numerous commercial products, including a book and a compact disc series. German director...

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...Carolina to conduct a survey of quilts owned in selected counties. This project resulted in a traveling exhibition and the book, Social Fabric: South Carolina's Traditional Quilts. In 1999, Horton...

Bodies and Souls

Bodies and Souls: Video and Essay When the body is falling apart, it's hard to pay attention to what your soul is telling you. —Sister Manette Durand Map of Jonestown,...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...foundation again, she thought of the book she had devoured three times in her high school years, The Lord of the Rings. "The land of Mordor," she said aloud. They...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...back never had an older woman fend for me before defended plenty though guess it’s fair in all Union guys they just pull in and pull back like a boxer...

Making History

...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...