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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

African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...

A City Divided

Introduction In spite of increasing animosity between workers and elites, blacks and whites, through the turn of the century, Atlanta's residential landscape remained curiously heterogeneous in terms of race and...

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...organization's Board of Directors from 1986 to 1996, and edited Uncoverings, the group's annual volume of research papers from 1987 to 1983. She also edited Quiltmaking in America: Beyond the...

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...is assistant professor of history at Emory University, a former award-winning health columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and the author of Vaccine Nation: America's Changing Relationship with Immunization (University...

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

Introduction Artists Susan Harbage Page and Juan Logan designed Prop Master: An Installation specifically for the Main Gallery of the Gibbes Museum of Art. In its totality, Prop Master constitutes...

The Carolina Piedmont

Landscape and Settlement As pioneers, traders, and military men traversed the region in the early eighteenth century, they found the towns of Catawba, Saponi, and Saura Indians and trading paths...

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

...of black stereotypes and stock characters, including the gone-but-not-forgotten mammy.47For compelling and much more thorough discussions of this figure, see Micki McElya's Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge,...