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

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...however they sounded, sold as either "race" records or old time ("hillbilly") records, depending on the presumed race of the musicians who recorded the music. One of Miller's most important...

US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces

...https://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards. ———. "Geography." January 11, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. ———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey." June 25, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey. ———. "Theories of Time and Space." June 20, 2005. https://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space. Interviews Albergotti,...

Murray Mountain, North Carolina

...pollution, the noise, the noise is something that is never gonna change. We're never going to have peace and quiet again. There's times I like to go out and pray...

Single Centers of Creation?

Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...

Birth Right

Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...