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

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...General Eric Holder and the Obama administration set in process actions that would reinstate the voting law preclearance in Texas, bringing a case to a federal court in Texas that...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...

"Aint that Something?"

...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...in Houston, Texas. The architecture of healthcare attests to the long-term intransigence of public health concerns, as well as to the thriving for-profit health business. The brick and stone tuberculosis...

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...