Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...spotlighted below a giant caramel ribbon of rock that flows down the center of image from outside the frame. Below “Johnny,” which sits on the wall like a crown, names...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...(35). John Egerton, "Possum on Terrace" with handwritten notes, 1987. Popham became a leader of a group of who called themselves the War Correspondents, white men who made their careers...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...the story," the African American artist Kara Walker has said about her art. "You keep creating a monster that swallows you." In a mid-career retrospective currently on tour, Walker's subject...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...and Democratic National Conventions held in Tampa, Florida and Charlotte, North Carolina respectively. The Huffington Post reported that many of the workers responsible for cleaning up after convention-goers at...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...prison than out. "The most dangerous woman in America," one prosecutor called her; "She is a wonder," her friend Carl Sandberg wrote; "The walking wrath of God," Upton Sinclair declared....
Dirty Little Story
...A Plan B is a wonderful thing at such a moment. We all pile back into the car. The weather is like October. The lake water is warm. The sky...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
A Sleight of History: Film and Essay Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium. A short film by Sarah Melton and Marshall Houston, 2009. My fellow filmmaker Marshall Houston...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...March on Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 13, 2016. Photograph by Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real...