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

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...

2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading

Greetings by Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey introduces the 2014 Callaloo Conference. I am Natasha Trethewey, the Director of the Creative Writing Program and I’m pleased to welcome you to this...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...understandings of citizenship and empire, as well as racial and class privilege. Mckiernan-González's work considers the medical politics of place, and the ways responses to epidemics reveal societal understandings of...

Editorial Style Guide

...work opportunity for the newest class of workers: first white women, then Black women and men, and finally Latin American immigrants. Southern Spaces has a team of managing staff: Allen...

Regions of Alabama

Video   Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...

Whiskey and Geography

...their fellow citizens, distilled whiskey became the indispensable and ubiquitous American drink. Even with other regions joining in the business of distilling, frontier whiskey continued to hold a good reputation...