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

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...title.1The unique 1802 Compact between Georgia and the federal government settled Georgia’s claim to its western land beyond the Chattahoochee River in return for a pledge to extinguish Indian title...

"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

...'Tater. Georgia Gourmets Now Reveling in the Chief Delight of the Year," https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1888-10-28/ed-1/seq-5/. Shipments by enterprising individuals such as Throckmorton fulfilled requests by southern congressmen. Georgia Democratic congressmen John Stewart...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...Charbonnier, Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Cambridge: Polity, 2021). It could indeed be pointed out that the rationalism defended by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, whose...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Early, and Decatur Counties in Georgia to end up in Houston County in Alabama and Seminole County in Georgia, both of which border the Florida state line.2Fred Fussell, A Chattahoochee...

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007

...discussion of 'southernness' sometimes engendered solidarity between southern and northern black youth, it also expressed divisions between these two groups. Within the context of rap, black southern participants often expressed...