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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

...into the United States from the Rio Grande, 2008. This essay offers an interpretation of the Border Project’s intervention on the immigration public debate. By photographing the border area and...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...whether any sincere anger or regret about Till's murder could issue from an area of the country so steeped in racism. What is so tragic about the Till story is...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...scholarship to take hold in the American South. The first contribution of this emerging environmental historiography has been to underscore that wide area’s obvious ecological diversity. Numerous distinctive ecological regions...