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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

...and protestations remain largely unsung and undervalued as critical components of the public housing story.6See, for instance, Roberta M. Feldman and Susan Stall, The Dignity of Resistance: Women Residents' Activism...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...& Views from a Few Spirited Georgia Democrats" declared that the poll is important because Atlanta elections are typically decided by Middle Atlanta, with its "multi-racial, multi-cultural, multi-ideology, and multi-partisan" makeup....

Theories of Time and Space

...loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp — buried terrain of the past. Bring only what...

Little Ivy, North Carolina

...the Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Mrs. Deizie Rasmussan, and her sister, at their mother’s grave before grave removal at the Little...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...and collections: Colección Puertorriqueña, Biblioteca José M. Lázaro, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras; Archivo General de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Colección de Héctor Rodríguez Vázquez. About the...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...global connections. From "Residues of Border Control," by Susan Harbage Page. "Spatial Justice" will examine social justice in the context of critical regional studies. The publication of this series will...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...white Kentuckians were more likely to identify themselves as southern. See George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990) 5, 70–72, 118–19.  "Of about...