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

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...the Mississippi Delta. It is the kind of road local people drive to reach Memphis or Clarksdale or walk to reach churches and stores and the gravel lanes that lead...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...and arrogant statement of inherited privilege. Instead, I will conclude by referring to a much more polite intervention that nevertheless re-states the dominant upper-caste and upper-class belief in the appropriate...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...were built for middle class Americans. See Annie S. Barnes, The Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety, Neighborhood, and Home in Interaction (Lima, Ohio: Wyndham Hall Press,...

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

...class. He is the author of Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004), which won the American Culture Association's John G. Cawelti Book Prize. Wiese...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...aimed for an audience of scholars and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, writers and media producers, and the general public. We wanted to distinguish Southern Spaces from strictly...