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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...in Sixty Maps, carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources (Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson Edition, 1818). Via Wikimedia Commons. This 1855 map of North Carolina illustrates the border between...

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

...one of the new acquisitions. Philadelphia brothers Dawud Anyabwile (illustrator), Guy A. Sims (writer), and Jason Sims (producer) launched what became an eleven-issue run in 1990. Often hailed as one of...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Lubaina Himid, Harris Art Gallery and Museum. Photograph by Flickr user drinksmachine, October 6, 2007. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Guarracino's point about "Western cultural hegemony," had summed up, accurately,...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...Cadava and Aaron Levy (Philadelphia, PA: Slought Foundation, 2004); The Law Is a White Dog: How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011). They interrogate...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...one hundred striking kids into "the March of the Mill Children," from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home on Long Island. By the early twentieth century, Mother Jones was...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...2005); Lisa Levenstein, A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010); and Rhonda Y. Williams, The...