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

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Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed, multimedia, open access journal published by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. We publish articles, photo essays and images, reviews, presentations, short videos, and monographs...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...of Rob Amberg. Truck Driving West on the newly opened Tennessee side of I-26 at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. On the highway and...

Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance

...and filled with all the devices of popular amusements, which will delight grown-ups and children, Ponce de Leon, the playground of Atlanta, will be thrown open to pleasure-loving patrons, Monday...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...the Atlanta Metropolitan Area detailing Collier Heights. Map courtesy of Wikimedia Commons user keizers and Open Street Map. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.5. As of 2016, Collier Heights is...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Italy and elsewhere, opening it to the challenge of voices coming from the margins of Western cultural hegemony."3Serena Guarracino, "Imoinda's Performing Bodies: An Interview with Joan Anim-Addo," in I am...

Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism

Review Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism opens with an arresting photographic image: nineteenth-century local colorist Mary Noailles Murfree, author of In the Tennessee Mountains, a collection of purportedly "authentic" sketches, sits...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...of its sins. Its new complex of Mississippi history museums, set to open in 2017, will prominently feature the Magnolia State's ferocious resistance to the civil rights movement. A peculiar...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...humor, the southwestern humorists of antebellum times displaced the traditional gentleman, supplanting him not with a counter-ideal but with rugged, sometimes openly anarchist anti-heroes. If we follow the development of...