Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 (2003). About Brett Gadsden Brett Gadsden is assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University. He received his PhD in history from Northwestern University....
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...in Emory's Department of Environmental Studies. She is also the former associate director of the Southern Regional Council, and served as managing editor of the SRC's quarterly journal, Southern Changes....
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s. The...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Director of the Southern Student Human Relations Project of the US National Student Association. She served as an advisor on the executive committee of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),...
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...
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...facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education...
Bricking the Church
...the Westward Expansion, 2011. In 2010 a special issue of Southern Quarterly, edited by Jesse Graves, was devoted to essays about his work. He has been awarded the James G....
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...sophistication should come from a small Southern town,” Michael Lachowski, bassist for Pylon, told the Washington Post in 1984. This sense of surprise worked in favor of early Athens bands,...