Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...Environments and Ecologies Indigenous Souths Queer Souths Reading and Writing Souths Religion Social Memory and Memorialization Southern Screens Southern Spaces will update our educational resources as we publish new scholarship,...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...http://www.emory.edu/home/university/global-health.html; Dave Huddleston, "Atlanta's HIV 'epidemic' compared to third world African countries," WSB-TV, May 6, 2016, http://www.wsbtv.com/news/2-investigates/atlantas-hiv-epidemic-compared-to-third-world-african-countries/263337845. This Southern Spaces series examines public health in rural and industrializing places around...
Writing Appalachia
...Irons, "Southern Literary Reconstructionists: Shaping Southern Literary Identity, 1895–1915" (Ph.D diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001). Hence, anthologists today (ourselves included) tend to view their collections as dialogues...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...antebellum Deep South during the cotton boom of the 1820s. The book's contributors argue that Louisiana's early history can only be understood by adopting an Atlantic perspective—one that considers its...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...When New York Disses The South,"Complex Magazine, July 1, 2010, http://www.complex.com/music/2010/07/hate-of-the-union-when-new-york-disses-the-south/; Darren E. Grem, "'The South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-hop America,"Southern Cultures...
Editors
...a professor of African American and African Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She has authored The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (Routledge,...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Chattahoochee Valley within the context of the southeastern ecoregions, as reported by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Map by Stephanie Bryan, 2020. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Blues scholar David Evans...
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...
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Southern Spaces combines innovative scholarship about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South with the tools of digital media. We publish work that represents and analyzes many souths...