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

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...strongest examples of the contested relationship between nations expressed medically. El Paso Anglo and Mexican American elites depended on the exploitation of Mexican labor and expected the neighboring city of...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...It is the troubled generations between the pre-Columbian past and the post-Pasteur present that occupy McCandless, who taught history at the College of Charleston from 1974 until his retirement in...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...freedom. As the Bridge Crossing has grown in attendance and visibility, a diverse cast of civil rights, religious, and political figures, musicians and media celebrities, have walked the walk. In...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...maintain their exclusionary practices. Finally, between 1926 and 1934, Nixon invested his time and energy into establishing a hospital in El Paso for blacks suffering from tuberculosis, a dream that...

Submission Guidelines

...in the US South; make connections and comparisons between southern regions or locales and places in the wider world; or use textual, archival, and ethnographic data to challenge conventional ways...