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

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...and New Jersey, as well as in Kenya, Egypt, China, England, Italy, and Russia, his photographs of Memphis, its suburbs, and the Delta are his most famous. He also worked...

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...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...Zawadski case in my home state, I cannot help but ponder "to live with equal dignity." What is at stake in overturning "religious freedom" laws is more than the "freedom"...