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

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...work, the large-scale landscape photography featured in Elegy asks viewers to see, and hear, the haunting presence of slavery projected against the landscape without the anchoring presence of Black bodies...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...was to characterize Flaherty's work. New History of Documentary Film (NY: Continuum, 2008).  In order to create the narrative frame central to his documentary mode, and to celebrate the exotic landscape he...

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...years of planning and a 2009 amendment to a City Code that barred new monuments in the plaza celebrating historical events occurring after 1821.16David Nolan, interview with the author, March...

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...

Brushes with War

...Overland Trail, where he rapidly became the foremost landscape painter of the American West. Is Harvey, a scholar of American landscape art, simply imposing her specialty on a captive audience,...