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

Cajun South Louisiana

...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...oil. Bayou Choctaw alone, near Baton Rouge, holds 73.2 million barrels of oil as part of the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Underground pipes transport not only crude and natural...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...Star State, across the South, and indeed, across the entire United States, were vigorously undoing the gains achieved by blacks during the Civil War and Reconstruction, all the while imposing...