A peer-reviewed, multimedia, open-access journal about real and imagined spaces/places of the US South and their global connections.
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2009
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Are you thinking about the public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic? Consider submitting a piece to Southern Spaces! Learn more: ow.ly/QCyO50HCCHA
Learn more about one of the largest sales of enslaved people in US history in this revamped article by interdisciplinary scholar Dr. Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson. southernspaces.org/2010/unea…
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Michelle Fishburne's WHO WE ARE NOW: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic is a collection of interviews recorded in-person across the US between 2020-2021. @SouthernSpaces presents seven of these narratives prefaced by a conversation w/Fishburne.
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New publication alert: Check out this interview and except from Michelle Fishburne's Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found during the COVID-19 Pandemic (@UNC_Press) southernspaces.org/2023/enco…
Check out our latest publication! Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance written by @MuseumMark and @LisaFager. southernspaces.org/2023/nann…
We're disheartened by the passing of Minnie Bruce Pratt. Here she is reading above the Cahaba River back in 2004 for our Poets in Place series. southernspaces.org/2004/no-p…
You can also check out her lecture here: "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?" southernspaces.org/2004/when…
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So proud of @raniqualee and comrades at @endstateatl for this piece! Here, they discuss how the end of the COVID emergency impacts mutual aid efforts, how Black communities are often abandoned in crisis, and our resolve despite it southernspaces.org/2023/end-…
New publication alert: @raniqualee writes about the end of the COVID state of emergency and the resulting impact on mutual aid efforts in Atlanta. southernspaces.org/2023/end-…
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“Our city creeks mark charismatic, if uncomfortable points of context between activism and disaster fetish, economics and racial inequity, lost memory and recovery, cool-credibility, and very real marginalization” southernspaces.org/2023/drai… via @SouthernSpaces #hydrologicalurbanism
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Cruising Grounds’ database encompasses over 400 historical queer businesses identified in Houston's historic queer publications specifically marketed to a queer clientele from 1941 to 2015. Read the full article in @SouthernSpaces or access the map: bit.ly/42oiGNi
Read about COVID response in Bangladesh in our newest publication! southernspaces.org/2023/miki…
In celebration of #earthday, read about the environmental evolution of St. Petersburg's Salt Creek with this virtual tour by @tbhallock! southernspaces.org/2023/drai…
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THRILLED to publish this multimedia essay on urban waterways @SouthernSpaces. Take a trip up w/ me up Salt Creek, the liquid historical heart @StPeteFL. @usfsp @USFResearch
Come take a virtual tour of this Florida waterway with our newest publication: Thomas Hallock's "Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida!" southernspaces.org/2023/drai…
Come take a virtual tour of this Florida waterway with our newest publication: Thomas Hallock's "Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida!" southernspaces.org/2023/drai…
"What was missed or mismanaged in the run up to the pandemic and during its catastrophic course will, if left unexamined and uncorrected, lead to enormous suffering and loss in additional public health crises."
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"Through it all I’ve photographed. Sometimes in direct response to covid—with a sense that there’s something rare and exceptional about the moment—and at other times just doing what I always do."
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New publication alert: CDC in the Pandemic's Wake by former CDC branch chief Daniel Pollock: southernspaces.org/2023/cdc-…
"The case, Merrill v. Milligan, will adversely shape voting rights in Alabama and across the nation, but the worst is yet to come if Justice Alito's remarks from the bench on October 4 foretell the Court's future approach."
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What do opossums have to do with the Jim Crow south? Find out: ow.ly/r51950NgT3e
We invite you to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as longer articles and media productions, that address the public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn more: ow.ly/4CsG50Nb2pc