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

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Local histories, inflected by what Dolores Hayden terms "the power of place," also shaped the political process that led to displacement and redevelopment.7Dolores Hayden, The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes...

Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology

...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...