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

Birth Right

...last few decades have resulted in an overmedicalization of healthcare. Over-reliance on medical technology and innovation with regard to maternal and child health has led to a collective loss of confidence...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...(e.g. masks, vaccines, ventilators, Zoom/virtual meetings)? How have individuals experienced affective dimensions of the pandemic, including transformative expressions of grief, loss, community, and connection?  How did the pandemic transform the...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...

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,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...

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....

Failed Memory Exercise

...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...