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

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Archives and Records Administration, 196087. Proponents of alleviating spatially concentrated poverty also supported the move toward government backing of private-sector redevelopment initiatives. For instance, civil rights attorney Alexander Polikoff described HOPE...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...sky is, how distant the family, but of winged seeds blown from a milkweed field in the opalescent smokes of early winter ascending toward heaven's blue, each self orchestrated in...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...weeks and forced all abortion sites to register as ambulatory surgical centers. Davis previously filibustered a budget that saw huge cuts to education for eight hours. Although that budget ultimately...

Negotiating Black Identities

Video   Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...flatness, what is present alongside what has gone, low fertile valleys juxtaposed with the dry peaks. The opposites are coequal and mutually dependent, elemental to how we see. The last...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...artists and writers? How have diverse forms of media carried, shaped, and spread political ideas and religious beliefs related to Covid?  What are representative symbols and sites of this pandemic...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....