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

Sea Changes in Personhood

...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...

Residues of Border Control

...clothes and personal objects and the repeated transit through the “safest” pathways. Immigrants who cross the river must change into dry clothes once they arrive on the northern side, to...

The Black Belt

...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...