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

"Aint that Something?"

...of cousins and "outlaw" uncles and family friends with wonderful names, by the way: Crater, Decent, Pickle, Cinderella, Big Jan. Dawn rarely sees her flighty mother who started "grieving out...

The Bulletin—November 15, 2012

...his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta." Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in...

The Cobb County Braves

...has noted, residents of Cobb County, an epicenter of suburbanization and white flight in the Metro-Atlanta region, have long opposed government spending on public transportation. In a press conference and...

The Black Belt

...Belt, its property owners benefiting from one of the most regressive tax structures in the nation. Segregated education remains a common practice due to white flight into private Christian academies....

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans.   Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

...slats. The post-war, white-flight model of red-lining and restrictive covenants has been transformed. Well-to-do people of color, the poor, and working classes are likewise drawn to urban peripheries. But subdivisions...