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

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

...“negro.” This official action during the Jim Crow era resulted in the flight of many of the state’s Native Americans.   Debra H. Rodman, Exhibition guest book, Library of Virginia,...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...

A City Divided

...Atlanta, 1890–1930," PhD Dissertation, Emory University, 1974. George F. Cram, Layout of Atlanta's Ward System (Fourth Ward in blue), 1874. Discomfited by an influx of rental housing and change in...

Residues of Border Control

...clothes and personal objects and the repeated transit through the “safest” pathways. Immigrants who cross the river must change into dry clothes once they arrive on the northern side, to...