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

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...farmers could borrow from banks, struggling farmers often turned to the FHA, the lender of last resort. County FHA supervisors had absolute control over which farmers received loans, and their...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...historian Hampton Dunn, who recognized the priceless value of the archive as a record of Tampa history. Dunn paid Cox $500 for an unspecified number of the negatives, some of...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...has an incentive to cut every last tree, shoot every last large-bodied mammal, and let his cattle graze every last acre of wild meadow, leaving nothing for anyone else. The...