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

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...is demonstrated to work with other newborns, it will be widely recommended for use around the world. Marco McMillian, an openly gay African American mayoral candidate in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was...

Remnants of Flannery

Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...

Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities

...Pooley examined Atlanta's population shifts, suburbanization patterns, and school performance. Pooley argued that the region's increasingly suburban African American population continues to face segregated housing patterns that undercut their ability...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off."   "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...

Dirty Little Story

...days of work. You would need gloves, a mask and a backhoe. This public beach seems emblematic of all that is wrong with American culture. On the one hand, you...

Mapping Souths

...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...

Huntsville, Alabama images

...incorporated town in the Alabama Territory. Tourists and Rockets, U. S. Space and Rocket Center The U.S. Space and Rocket Center opened in 1970 on land donated by the U.S....

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...by the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Southern Spaces also accepts print and media submissions by post at Robert W. Woodruff Library, 540 Asbury Circle, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322....

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...The sounds of the place transfixed me, and I created a video piece that centers on the audio of this auction house.  About the Author Noam Osband is a filmmaker...