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

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...of the US South with the tools of digital media. We publish work that represents and analyzes many souths and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates...

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...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...1/2 hours. Streaming audio and transcription of interview. Source: Documenting the American South, Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-253/menu.html Interview with...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...