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

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...plantations," to claim that those plantations contained an "already existing slave labor force" (136) misses the point. As an analytical category in the context of antebellum slavery, "newcomer" meant everything...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...

John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943

...House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008). It was easy to get out; people did it all the time. With a day pass, you could catch a bus...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...