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

Quilting Conversation

...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

...primarily through new home construction during the post war period Part 4: Dr. Wiese refers to postwar growth on Atlanta’s west side to illustrate how self-contained Black neighborhoods emerged Part 5: Dr....

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...of Central Appalachia. The new standards, enacted to protect the environment by reducing toxic air emissions, acid rain, and urban air pollution, had the unexpected, ironic effect of decimating thousands...

The Black Belt

...dialect, trying to depict the dwellers of the Black Belt as I felt and saw them.” New York, New York. Portrait of Richard Wright, poet, May 1943. Photograph by Gordon...