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

Mississippi Delta

...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...Museum (March 15, 2019–September 1, 2019) examines how queer people "carved out spaces for themselves in southern Florida" across the twentieth century. For this interview, I asked Capó about Welcome...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...read the late twentieth century writings of Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, and Samuel R. Delany alongside the visual images of early 20th century artists, like Aaron Douglas. Exploring connections across genres and time periods, as...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...July 28, 2012, 12 Noon  First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655 (at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken) Schedule 12 Noon - Church opens for meditation...

A City Divided

...Atlanta, 1890–1930," PhD Dissertation, Emory University, 1974. George F. Cram, Layout of Atlanta's Ward System (Fourth Ward in blue), 1874. Discomfited by an influx of rental housing and change in...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...of the Civil Rights Movement (Boston: Bedford, 1994); Stephen J. Whitfield, A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till (New York: The Free Press, 1988). Mace also repeats...

The Bulletin—May 8, 2013

...the House. Former Congressman Sanford, despite causing a great scandal in 2009 by covering up a romantic affair in Argentina with a story about hiking the Appalachian Trail, ran against...