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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...are biographies that also challenge the conventional trajectories of the “migrant.” In “Greece to Norfolk,” the exhibition tells of Demetrios Karkambasis (renamed James Campas) who comes to the United States...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...of slavery in the United States, photography and film have articulated the overdetermined image and, eventual sound, of slavery within the imagination. In both “350,000” and “Evergreen,” Bey’s exclusion of...

The Bulletin—October 18, 2012

..."The Clean Water Act at 40" (PDF) which details how a majority of legislators in eight Appalachian states have voted for bills challenging the Act, which was initially supported by...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States? I wouldn't consider any of their work a result of flitting. But Thompson, with his bar tab calculations and his smug questions fired...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

...mind the recent outages during Hurricane Isaac and the slow and unequal pace of development of the city’s electrical grid post-Katrina. Recent analysis reveals that residents of several southern states had...

Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers

...Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to...