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

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...twentieth- and early twenty-first-century version of "Negro removal."3"Negro removal" was a phrase used to describe the disproportionate displacement of black people from neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal. "Urban renewal," writes...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...federal levels, have contributed to the discourse of sickle cell disease (SCD) as a black disease, despite a prevailing cultural ideology of racial mixture. Drawing on ethnography and oral histories from...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...mid-2000s. Now on loan to the Smithsonian, it's likely to be viewed and pondered by millions in the coming years. Ashley's Sack: A provisional timeline. Timeline information courtesy of the...