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

The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness

...Vice, April 13, 2017, https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/aemwqg/s-town-and-the-loneliness-of-being-gay-in-the-rural-south; Michael A. Lindenberger, "S-Town Humanizes the Haunting Isolation of Gays in Rural America," Dallas Morning News, May 3, 2017, https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2017/05/03/john-bs-loneliness-tells-us-homosexual-life-rural-america. ) Olin Long tells of...

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....

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...the frontier hymns in The Sacred Harp is one of its distinguishing characteristics and Hulan’s research, which he likens to “chasing rainbow makers,” brings new light and a welcome perspective....

Public Health in the US and Global South

...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...

Local Color

...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...