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

Palomares Bajo

...were thoroughly othered, marked as "racially different." Their "miserable and abandoned hamlet" was contradictorily said to be "inhabited by dark-skinned gypsies and by descendants of the Moor[s]," a coded reference...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...narrates the struggle over Indian Removal. He details the state of Georgia's campaign of violence and harassment against Cherokees and the national debate over the Indian Removal Act. He notes...

Trouble the Land: The City Too Busy to Hate

...(1:08) Narrator: When Grady proclaimed a New South, he coined a phrase and cast an image that Atlanta would promote for decades to come.   By the early 1960s, growing Black...