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

Huntsville, Alabama images

...Army. It claims to be the world's largest space attraction. It also houses the graves of Able and Baker, monkeys who flew on a 1959 Jupiter test flight. Published: 28...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...

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...

"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 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...

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,...

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...