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

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...spaces for job talks and self-improvement classes, and ubiquitous coffee shops and bars. These developments are creating new buzz about Atlanta's future. The Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, Georgia. Photograph courtesy of...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...engaged. We could locate oysters and restore nineteenth-century reef names because food historians such as Robb Walsh found maps and newspaper stories from before the beds were scientifically coded and...

Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City

...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html.  Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...that “contributed to ‘breaking the bonds of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities’” (11, quoting Turner, 1920). The backdrop to The Sacred Harp’s emergence is not...

A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave

...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Evidently a seed sack made of unbleached cotton fabric dating to the mid-nineteenth century,...