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

Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South

...“Liminal Legality”; James Smith,“Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/guatemala-economic-migrants-replace-political-refugees/. This first wave of migrants from war-torn Guatemala initially settled in Los...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...Orleans, Louisiana, February 2006. Photograph by Stewart Harvey. Codes are marked on the collapsed roof of this demolished house. © Stewart Harvey. How did others interpret the X-code? ". ....

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...our house paint."6Barton, op. cit. Dorothy Moye, Bywater neighborhood, Tibetan prayer flags and poster with preserved code, 2009. Other New Orleanians purposefully preserve their X-codes as powerful memory markers, integral...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...of the house, mounted on his horse, surveying the battlefield action. Enlarged detail of the Troup Hurt House and the four-gun De Gress Battery (right of the house), which were temporarily...