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

Writing Appalachia

...with an author and her or his craft. Johnstown, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, December 6, 2019. Photograph by Justin Hamel. © Justin Hamel. As our story of creating this anthology suggests,...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...by the economist Elinor Ostrom, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2009 for her work on the economic governance of common resources. Each community shall include...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...Jr. married Annie Eliza Erwin, whose father, James Daniel Erwin, had died two years earlier and bequeathed her twenty-three slaves, many of who were held on his Erwinton plantation, adjacent...