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

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...heard her read her poetry in the late 1970s in the conference rooms of an Atlanta hotel where we were among those laying the groundwork for the first Women's Studies...

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...library which was built inside an old Wal-Mart Store. View a photographic tour of this repurposed facility. Atlanta University Center's Robert W. Woodruff Library Learning Commons also received an award...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...defense spending and the Sunbelt got the disproportionate share, whether it was defense contractors in southern California, aircraft manufacturers in Dallas and Atlanta, or nuclear reactors in South Carolina. As...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...Out Until Tomorrow" by Brother Theotis Taylor. This was recorded live by George Mitchell in 1976 or 1977 at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival at the Atlanta Civic Center. And...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Steve Bransford lives in Atlanta with his wife Amy and two-year-old son Miles. He recently completed his PhD in American Studies from Emory University and is currently serving as visiting...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....