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

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...

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...

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...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...a seemingly mundane phrase, but a phrase that speaks so much about American culture. You know, one must perpetually perform some aspect of American success ideology—whether it's a coming out...

Quilting Conversation

Introduction by Katherine Jentleson During the summer of 2018, Atlanta's High Museum of Art hosted Outliers and American Vanguard Art, an exhibition that demonstrated how self-taught artists have been major...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...