Southern Spaces Recommends
...Out Until Tomorrow" by Brother Theotis Taylor. This was recorded live by George Mitchell in 1976 or 1977 at the Georgia Grassroots Music Festival at the Atlanta Civic Center. And...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Steve Bransford lives in Atlanta with his wife Amy and two-year-old son Miles. He recently completed his PhD in American Studies from Emory University and is currently serving as visiting...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Author Michael Moon grew up in rural Oklahoma in the 1950s and '60s, and since then has lived for extended periods in New York City, Baltimore, Durham, NC, and Atlanta,...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...is vice president of the Atlanta-based Southern Education Foundation (SEF) and an adjunct faculty member of the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. Suitts' previous essay for...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the river from Southgate, Kentucky), and Trixie Smith, a university-educated blues great born into a middle-class home in Atlanta, suggest some of the borders crossed in this period of cultural...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...of Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In stirring, memorable words, Justice Elena Kagan dissented from the Court's majority opinion on behalf of its two other liberal members. "If a single...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...