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

Love and Death at Second-Line

...levels of society? Tuba Fats did his part to keep the best of tradition and everybody loved him for it. How tragic and ironic that a violent death over street...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...stupid, makes him see nothing beyond a short term gain, which is why I know more likely than not I'll be arriving too late, what's to be done best done...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

...think is the best way— Mitchell: —That’s right— Jim Bunkley: For the sound, that’s the way you have to play. Mitchell: So you learned off Blind Lemon records? Jim Bunkley:...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...published in a best-selling segregationist pamphlet in an attempt to discredit the behavior of black activists. It was also published in Jet magazine where it questioned the unjust use of...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...Peeples quadrangle, South Carolina-Georgia [map]. First Edition 1943. 1:62,500. Reston, Va: United States Department of the Interior, USGS, 2016. As of this writing, there is no direct documentary proof that...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...discovered no trace of HIV in the baby. As The New York Times reported, transmission of HIV from mother to baby is rare in the United States, about two hundred...