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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...photography's historical role in the construction of African American identity. As a relatively new mechanical medium, training in early photography was not restricted by racially limited access to academic fine...

Naming Each Place

...work of other black writers Part 3: Trethewey and Brown discuss writing against the New Critics Part 4: Trethewey and Brown discuss working and hanging out in New Orleans and more Part...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...bridge at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT supervisors discussing work on the new Visitor Center, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob...

Quilting Conversation

...working in New York in the 1970s, thanks in part to a 1971 exhibition at the Whitney Museum, Abstract Design in American Quilts, that put historical quilts in conversation with...