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

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...collected volumes as "his generation's 'finest contribution to American patriotism.'" And then there were the guides to major cities: New York and San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta, to name but...

Good-Bye to All That?

...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers, Civil and Human Rights Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, on view March 14, 2015; "Gregory and Wife Guilty in...

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces

...July 8, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable,...

The Bulletin—August 9, 2012

...has left some observers wondering if "Metro-Atlanta" even exists and whether or not Atlanta residents should seek to enact transportation changes without the help of the surrounding region in the future. On...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

..."St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A Visual History." Southern Spaces, September 28, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/st-augustines-slave-market-visual-history. McClintock, Diana. "Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art." Southern Spaces, May 28, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/gordon-parks-atlantas-high-museum-art. Pooley,...