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

Sea Changes in Personhood

...from the historical context of the tropical Plantation South. Here, slaves were amputated of their limbs and personhood through actual acts of torture and dismemberment but also while "living on...

Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis

...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...

Deep Ellum Blues

...a mile or so to the south and east of this neighborhood, I saw the black neighborhoods around Fair Park, neighborhoods which I understood to be South Dallas (i.e. black...

The US South in Global Contexts

Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...

Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South

...Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official's Reconnaissance Trip to the US South." Southern Spaces, March 18, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south. Herring, Christie. Bodies and Souls. Southern Spaces, November 30, 2009....