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

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...brick by brick."5Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 148. For residents whose homes were built—brick-by-brick—by fellow African Americans, from conception to financing to development...

"Aint that Something?"

...© Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 1, 58. This material is used by permission of Ohio University Press, www.ohioswallow.com. "I had had my...

The Cobb County Braves

..."We . . . recognize that what is insurmountable is we can't control traffic, which is the No. 1 reason why our fans don't come to more games. . ....

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...

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...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-det-4a19873. "I Just Liked to Be in that Number": The Longshoremen Remember The transformative impact of...