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

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...intelligence. His fellow bibliophiles shared his sense of purpose, but Schomburg appears to have had the most comprehensive approach to using his collection as a resource in shaping public understanding...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...rice planters for a slave-based plantation economy. Jennison unpacks Georgia's slave codes from 1755, 1765, and 1770 to demonstrate how a Savannah-based, Lowcountry elite eventually seized power. Jennison cautions, however,...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...to Civil Rights Images."8Maurice Berger, "A Radically Prosaic Approach to Civil Rights Images," Lens, New York Times, July 16, 2012, http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/a-different-approach-to-civil-rights-images/.  It is precisely the unexpected poetic quality of Parks's seemingly...