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

Residues of Border Control

...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...region, and the distinctive environment of the Lowcountry. In those days, black South Carolinians, enslaved or free, played little role in the state’s official past, and medical history, there and...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...Charbonnier, Affluence and Freedom: An Environmental History of Political Ideas (Cambridge: Polity, 2021). It could indeed be pointed out that the rationalism defended by the philosophers of the Enlightenment, whose...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...French Colonial period. In the late fifties and early sixties, Phương Anh was required to complete mandatory military service for young men in their twenties. A former teacher of Vietnamese...

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