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

A City Divided

..."beautifully shaded avenues, all well paved" and "artistic" design.11Atlanta Constitution, September 16, 1906. For those who remained in town, weekend tours to the new park-neighborhoods reminded well-heeled Atlantans of the...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...

The Crowd He Becomes

15 September 1963, Birmingham Later he will say he did not do it, he was home at breakfast, just ask the wife, say they heard some radio preacher doing love...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...