Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignation." 3Reed, 13. The pervasive but varying conditions of white supremacy meant that the places where Black people could be their own free selves, away from everyday racial dangers and...
DOIs and Altmetrics
...the circulation of a given piece, measuring circulation in badges that detail readers’ engagement. For example, the Altmetric page for Thomas Chase Hagood's "Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom", shows how many...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...nearly all fall neatly below the Mason-Dixon line. The bottom six states, the "least tolerant," in descending order, are South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Of the twenty-three...
Brushes with War
...art works, plus a sampling of wartime photographs, drawn from over two dozen museums and private collections. The Georgia photographs of George N. Barnard were on loan from the Nelson-Atkins Museum...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Quilting Conversation
...and quilting. Quilting Conversation panelists, Atlanta, Georgia, September 22, 2018. From left: Katherine Jentleson, Marquetta Johnson, Michael Moon, Mary Margaret Pettway, and Erin Jane Nelson. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces....
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Kentucky, or Pat Jarret's photograph of the Freedom Industries' chemical spill site in Charleston, West Virginia (Figures 21, 22). Other "natural settings" alter these frames: does Amanda Greene's North Georgia...
Piedmont Blues
...sake of clarity, this essay defines the Piedmont blues region as spanning from Danville, Virginia to Atlanta, Georgia, running approximately 325 miles from northeast to southwest and being seventy-five to...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...are in such a dark time, from a certain perspective. I also think—I wrote about this in an essay for the Georgia Review—I'm finished with writing about how things are...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
Logo, On Second Thought, Georgia Public Broadcasting. Southern Spaces author Karen Beck Pooley was featured in a June 16, 2015 interview on Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio program On Second Thought....