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

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...

Submission Guidelines

...all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of...

Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs

...whether they are species grown by Benjamin Franklin or Gainey’s own grandmother. Gainey’s musings on figs (using scientific Latinate terms and discussing Western mythology) demonstrate his devotion to gardening as...

The Black Belt

...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...