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

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...Americans use the centennial to establish “the justice and equality which were the dream of the founding fathers and . . . the inalienable rights of every American citizen.” Many...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...nineteenth centuries the Lowcountry proved “the deadliest disease region on the North American mainland,” especially in the summer and fall. “Carolina is in the spring a paradise,” commented a German...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...he pursued with his characteristic vigor but could not realize due to a lack of institutional support and funds. Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas,...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...for them, and their ensnarement, if successful, is followed by an emancipatory revelation. As Claire Katz observes, "O'Connor as narrator plays the role of scourge."5Katz, Claire. "O'Connor's Rage of Vision." American...

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...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...to provide support.  Mutual aid allows organizations to provide immediate care and relief to individuals in need without imposing the bureaucratic processes that often keep aid beyond reach. Under a...