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

El Dorado newspaper

El Dorado Daily Walnut Valley Times. Untitled. April 22, 1893. "Let us not howl at the south for murdering 'niggers.' Up at Salina a mob hung a darkey for slashing...

Race

...told, and not told, this tale. The one time Great-Uncle Paul brought his wife to New York he asked his siblings not to bring their spouses, and that is where...

Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney

...public-access television, a teacher at New York University, and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was remembered in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and by Tom Rankin...

Old Elementary

...the first school he despised, in the despised small town where we grew up. I drive past it every time I go back there, the building abandoned years ago by...

In the Magic City

...browning air     the static that backs the horn when I start it up again.     Tyner almost sweats what he keeps just out of time,     what Jimmy's talking...

Laurel River, North Carolina

Men pouring footers for the columns of the new bridge over the Laurel River, Laurel River, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Nighttime pour of concrete on the bridge...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...