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

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...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...