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

The Carolina Piedmont

...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

...1981);Young'uns: A Celebration (New York: Harper & Row, 1982); her memoir, Turned Funny; six mysteries, The Malignant Heart (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Ah, Sweet Mystery: A Kate Mulcay Mystery (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Straight as an...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...I was the principal investigator for two of these (the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth), which brought in some six hundred thousand dollars to the Emory Libraries. These grants inaugurated a new...

The Black Belt

...Coast port of Mobile. Stereograph of African Americans in a cotton field in Montgomery, Alabama, ca. 1860. Photograph by J.H. Holtzclaw. Courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division,...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Humanism," boundary 2 vol. 12, no. 3 – vol 13, no. 1 (Spring–Autumn, 1984): 47. Here I take some solace in the conditional nature of Wynter's most damning observation. If the fraught relations...