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

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...markings, 2007.   The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...at Florida International University. His first book, Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, explores John Sewell's 1933 notion of Florida as "a playground for the Nation" specifically through his...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...'60s and early '70s in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 387–460....

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...