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

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...who, like the Mims, were directly affected by the town's chemical dramas, serves as a powerful "argument for reforming how we manufacture, use, and regulate toxic chemicals in the United...

A Mess of Poke

...cultivate it and use the starch of the roots for tempura batter, tofu, noodles, and gelatinous confections.) I pull most of the poke plants up all summer long because otherwise...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...owned about fifteen slaves and many properties in Maryland and the District of Columbia, including the properties now known as Dumbarton House, Beall-Washington House, Conjuror's Disappointment and Rock of Dumbarton....

The Chesapeake Bay

...daily use of 1,600 million gallons, nearly double the use for agriculture or the public, and that water quality varied in the region with most of the pollution and problems...