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

Genres of Southern Literature

...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...imperial medical intervention. A syndicate-owned cotton plantation in Mapimi, Mexico, had recruited over one hundred African American sharecroppers from Alabama to become "colonists," and relocate to Mexico to provide labor...

Residues of Border Control

...Security boxes, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with label, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010.   Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain...