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

How I Shed My Skin

Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

Introduction Herman J. Russell Home at 714 Shorter Terrace in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, 2015. In August 2015, the Collier Heights home of Herman J. Russell (1930–2014), African...

The Black Belt

...Georgia and the Carolinas in an epidemic of "Alabama Fever." Following the forced removal of Native Americans, the Black Belt emerged as the core of a rapidly expanding plantation area....

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Howell Homes, center, Techwood Homes, left, Georgia Institute of Technology, bottom. Atlanta, Georgia, circa 1940. Photocopy of photograph. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, HABS GA,61-ATLA,63--2. View of playground...