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

Deep Ellum Blues

...Essay (Showing Historical Boundaries) Discovering Deep Ellum Driving through other parts of the city of Dallas itself produced another and more unsettling effect: neighborhoods that were certainly not rural, but...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

...in the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017); Christopher D. E. Willoughby, "Running Away from Drapetomania: Samuel Cartwright, Medicine and Race in the Antebellum South," Journal...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...attain to the position of an external observer, at once inside/outside the figural domain of our order. Sylvia Wynter, "The Ceremony Must be Found: After Humanism," 1984 As a result...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...decorations in Mount Zion. We are grateful to Carlton Fletcher, Fath Davis Ruffins, Russell Smith, Ibrahim Sundiata, and Jay Ball for many interpretive insights into this narrative. Many thanks to...

Religion and the US South

...This happened in the South also in places like New Orleans and Savannah, but in most places the rural nature of southern life gave a peculiar character to the Catholic...