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

A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl

...of black stereotypes and stock characters, including the gone-but-not-forgotten mammy.47For compelling and much more thorough discussions of this figure, see Micki McElya's Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America (Cambridge,...

The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces

...a broad public discussion about slavery and race in American history and in contemporary America as well. By now most realize that this is not easy and, at the same...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013);...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...She is the author of A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle-Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011) and Making Whiteness:...