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

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...Rare Book Library, March 29, 2016. Photograph by Kelly Gannon. Courtesy of Kelly Gannon. Today, as a doctoral student in Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, I research contemporary...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House

...Museum serves as one of Atlanta's premiere institutions of African American and African diasporic art. The July 12, 2015, event was titled #homeplace, an homage to bell hooks's essay about black women's homes as sites of resistance and to Hammonds...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...the story," the African American artist Kara Walker has said about her art. "You keep creating a monster that swallows you." In a mid-career retrospective currently on tour, Walker's subject...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...of the plantation South. His romantic histories, beginning with Fabulous New Orleans, and followed quickly by Father Mississippi and Old Louisiana, all authored during a literary sojourn in New York...

Anniversary

...of poetry include Murder Ballads (2005), A Murmuration of Starlings (2008, and Persons Unknown (2010). His poems appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review,...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...