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

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....

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....

Editorial Style Guide

...a whole is to simply use "the South" or "southern" whenever possible. South: Southern Spaces prefers writing that treats "the South" as an imagined geography that has had important political...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...

The Black Belt

...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...