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

At Sun Ra's Grave

...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...

"Aint that Something?"

...of cousins and "outlaw" uncles and family friends with wonderful names, by the way: Crater, Decent, Pickle, Cinderella, Big Jan. Dawn rarely sees her flighty mother who started "grieving out...

The Cobb County Braves

...has noted, residents of Cobb County, an epicenter of suburbanization and white flight in the Metro-Atlanta region, have long opposed government spending on public transportation. In a press conference and...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic," Scientific American, February 2, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-can-and-cannot-do-in-a-time-of-pandemic/.  Sports celebrities and other influencers joined in; some publicly declined vaccinations for spurious or unspoken reasons. In...

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. Between 1983 and 1985, Horton worked with the McKissick Museum at the University of South...