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

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

Introduction Herman J. Russell Home at 714 Shorter Terrace in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, 2015. In August 2015, the Collier Heights home of Herman J. Russell (1930–2014), African...

The Black Belt

...Georgia and the Carolinas in an epidemic of "Alabama Fever." Following the forced removal of Native Americans, the Black Belt emerged as the core of a rapidly expanding plantation area....

Sowing The Seed Underground

Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999),  The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

Big City Bird’s Eye View. Artistic rendering by Dawud Anyabwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Antonio Valor. Character drawing by Dawud Anybwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and...