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

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

...his PhD from Columbia University in 1993. Prof. Wiese’s areas of interest include the history of housing and residential landscapes, housing policy, suburbanization, and the spatial production of race and...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...paraphernalia from the civil rights movement, sold at the National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, March 31, 2013. Photograph of postcard courtesy of Erick Alvarado. © Erick Alvarado,...

The Chesapeake Bay

Introduction The Chesapeake Bay's environmental history is complex and well-documented. Over four-hundred years of textual records document the Bay's environmental history, and over ten-thousand years of archaeological, geological, and biological...

Dirty Little Story

...bluff with all our paraphernalia. We stop short. Even the children are horrified by the litter. I have never seen anything like it, not on Pickwick or anywhere else. And,...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...fueled a rigid racial order amid changing class alliances. For Jennison, the slide toward the sectional South of white rule, black oppression, and red removal was not inevitable but resulted from...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...120] Whether or not the handkerchiefs in Rosa's quilt were products of this local factory, similar bandannas would have been widely available in local stores. Construction: Rosa Benson Snoddy framed...