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

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...be understood in the context of the Americas. Lastly, the exhibition explores some of the challenges for Miami's LGBTQ people today and highlights many of the organizations and institutions working...

Remnants of Flannery

...President Eisenhower signed Executive Order 10450, which made it legal to hunt down and fire gay and lesbian government employees. The policy lasted until President Clinton officially rescinded it in...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...Dallas County. During sentencing, prosecutors alleged that she had also stabbed to death two elderly women, and the jury sentenced her to die by lethal injection. Governor Rick Perry has...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

Review Children at Play, Mobile, Alabama, 1956. Photograph 37.002 by Gordon Parks. Courtesy of and copyright by The Gordon Parks Foundation. A grandfather holds his small grandson while his three...

African American Suburban Development in Atlanta

...End of Southern Exceptionalism" conference held at Emory University in March of 2006, an event organized by Prof. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department and Prof. Matt Lassiter...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...published and broadcasted segregationist sermons, cartoons, and editorials that resembled the sermons of their pastor, Reverend Douglas Hudgins. Such activities flourished, "because of evangelical religion's strength and not in spite...