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

Authorship in Africana Studies

...cover and content page from The Fifth London Festival of American Music program featuring The Crossing, libretto by Joan Anim-Addo. The art that chooses us, I suggest, carries its own...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). Rennie Collection, Vancouver. Image © Dawoud Bey. Right, Open Window, from the series In This Here Place, 2019, Gelatin Silver Print by Dawoud Bey (American,...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Fred Fussell offers additional geographical and historical notes in A Chattahoochee Album: It is believed that Native American people . . . had lived in and around the Lower Chattahoochee...

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...

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...

A City Divided

...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...