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

Unquiet Emmett Till

...Urban History at Loyola University Chicago. His books and articles embrace multiple aspects of urban and American culture, particularly the history of various social groups in American cities since 1800....

Deep Ellum Blues

...Ellum Area This hyper-American model of speculative growth has left little room for the old, at least until very recently. For such a young city, the new becomes the old,...

The US South in Global Contexts

Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...

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...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of African American Studies, American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Music at Yale University. She is the author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...