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

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...he pursued with his characteristic vigor but could not realize due to a lack of institutional support and funds. Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas,...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...our largest cities," such as Chicago, better served neoliberal policy agendas that privileged the market and increased privatization (2). As a result, despite the commission's recommendations that called for investment...

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...of return migration would have paralleled many travelers' comings and goings between continents. John Smith’s story questions the dichotomy between "immigrant" and "colonist," or "settler.” Among the other eight profiles...