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

Scarecrow

...cawed Unmoved, their plucking a parade. The wind blew the odor of death In my direction. I had a mind To cry; I shut my marble eyes Too afraid to...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...formal parlor, sometimes described by social historians as a "sacred" space, where weddings, funerals, and other public events were held. In addition, larger houses, such as the one built by...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...For example, medical and funeral providers have the legal right to deny care and service to LGBTQ individuals even as such a denial violates the Hippocratic Oath and similar ethical...

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...history of the sack demonstrates how, in the face of structural forces that systematically alienated property from enslaved and liberated people of color, a single material object was inherited, preserved,...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...builds on the work of scholars in environmental history, medical humanities, and ethics to analyze the cultural and economic factors in health policy and medical care. This history reveals heroes...