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

St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History

...of ex-slaves in what was to become the United States.6See Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon, Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1995); and...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...with its enervating effects, played a role in shaping the popular image of the "lazy southerner." Tuberculosis plagued the South more than any other section of the United States and...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...311–328. The largest public health cataclysm in a hundred years has put to the test assumptions, capacities, decisions, practices, and policies. In many ways, the United States has been found wanting,...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...