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

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...

Artist Repertoire Index

...New Orleans Bound Oh, Red Paparia Open You Big Fat Thighs Poor Boy Rock Me The Root Blues See What You Did to Me Slow Song (I Can’t Go Home)...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

Remembering Documentary Filmmaker George Stoney

...public-access television, a teacher at New York University, and a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He was remembered in the New York Times, the Village Voice, and by Tom Rankin...

From Raw Cotton to Cloth

Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...

Birth Right

...My Babies, that portrayed a visual and narrative context for the role of Georgia midwives as primary birthing attendants. A lack of education among the general population and among medical...