Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Ansley Mall Mini-Cinema. One Tuesday night Atlanta police stopped the screening, confiscated the print, and arrested the theater manager. In addition, they photographed most, if not all, of the seventy...
Welcome!
Welcome to the Southern Spaces blog. Since our first publication in 2004, Southern Spaces has been invested in peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access scholarship. Over the past few years, we have redesigned...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...American Environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1996). We need more work that takes the connections between corporations and major, national environmental groups...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
...Race Women (University of Illinois Press, May 2017) and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin’s, February 2018). Her work explores Black women's intellectual history, Black feminist thought, and race...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Southern Autographics, incorporates hand-written drawings and text with photographic imagery to create narratives of historical, environmental, and personal significance. Many of his pieces are photographic collages that juxtapose the South's...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...creeks, and maritime forests. 0:39 – Here is the southeastern end of Sapelo Island along Nannygoat Beach, with shallow offshore, beach, coastal dune ridges, back-dune meadows, and maritime forest. 0:51...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Bey. Within the full context of Elegy, viewers can understand the impact of this scene. The slow march from the Manchester docks, from Virginia through the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama to...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...