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

The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills

...Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-6. Sam Fowler, 1930 City of Atlanta quadrangle map, Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta,Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

Review An odd thing has happened on the way to the antebellum American past. Capitalism reigns; cotton is king; and work and workers are no longer studied together. Instead, slaves...

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...inland ecosystems of Ossabaw, especially the maritime forests and salt marshes, were altered considerably by this agriculture. Following the American Civil War, a significant population of African Americans stayed on...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007 ARC/ Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,...

The Liminal Site

...all summer. Part of this was my nod to the more irreverent and ebullient traditions of African American southern gardening and yard art; part, too, was my nod to global...