Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the Haunted South," The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, eds. Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), 238–62. Seven Cherokee chief delegates accompanying...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...awarded the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he...
A Mess of Poke
Essay If some of y’all never been down South too much, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about Down there...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...the US and Global South, edited by Dr. Mary E. Frederickson. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Mary Ann Robertson at seditor@emory.edu. See the Southern Spaces...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and Global South....
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...Transcript prepared by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Text may not exactly correspond to the video recording of Pratt's lecture available on Southern Spaces. © 2004 Minnie Bruce Pratt and Southern Spaces...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Maxey talks with Craig Womack, Dustin, Oklahoma, 2015. Screenshot from Hearing the Call courtesy of Southern Spaces. For sure, the dominating force of English surrounds us. People in Creek country...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...which represent places in the US South—have become seared into the southern imaginary. Calling up associations of segregation and depression-era rural poverty, the photographs both tie the present-day South to...