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

Editors

...Smith, Occidental College Jon Smith, Simon Fraser University Nick Spitzer, Tulane University Mart Stewart, Western Washington University Steve Striffler, University of New Orleans Steve Suitts, Atlanta, Georgia Colin Talley, Emory...

"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place

...“Uncle Frank” and “TVA.” Although Tennessee River bottom land held its share of plantations, the Truckers’ cultural geography was one that pitted “sharecroppers against the world.” Even after Franklin Roosevelt...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...Alexander Murray's collection. Henry Proctor Slaughter's collection figured prominently in the development of Atlanta University's Africana Collection. Jesse Moorland's gift to Howard University sparked the development of the Moorland-Spingarn Research...

A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State

...Georgia's prisons, Georgia, November 3, 1940. Copyright Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Courtesy of Georgia State University Library, Photographic Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives, digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/611/rec/53. Turning to the brutality...