The Dirt Eaters
Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. A recent report commissioned by the Pew Charitable Trusts, which was conducted by the firm Ecotrust, revealed that overfishing for south Atlantic...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
On Fair Use
...publishers, university libraries, and scholars debate the issue in federal court. While Southern Spaces does not have a specific "fair use" policy, we sometimes make fair use claims when justifying...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...from the historical context of the tropical Plantation South. Here, slaves were amputated of their limbs and personhood through actual acts of torture and dismemberment but also while "living on...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Susannah Darrow on Arts Organizations in Atlanta
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
Megabus Coach USA MCI 102EL3 #29030, August 8, 2006. Photograph by Steinsky. Courtesy of Steinsky. Last Spring, Edward A. Hatfield wrote for Southern Spaces on the challenges of transportation planning...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
Atlanta Intersections features Atlantans in conversation with Randy Gue, curator of Modern Political and Historical Collections at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). In collaboration with Southern Spaces, MARBL...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive launch party poster, Holly Hobbs, 2014. The NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive, the first university-affiliated southern rap archive in the Deep South, is now online....
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...