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

The Bulletin—July 24, 2012

...ranchers sold nearly 36,000 head of cattle last week, triple the number from a few weeks ago. The Arkansas River Basin has been hit especially hard, which is evident in this map...

The Border South

...in 1860 stood at the top of the list in the South in its commitment to slavery. It was the largest slaveholding state in the country with the most slaveholders...

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...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...control in our country," President Donald Trump claimed without justification in February 2020.7"Trump Says Coronavirus Is 'Very Well Under Control' in U.S.," Bloomberg, February 25, 2020, Video, 1:26, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-02-25/trump-says-coronavirus-is-very-well-under-control-in-u-s-video. When...

Gone With the Wind

...the pines, which are not there anymore. It would be Sunday, and he would wait for the rooster to crow over the screen door's creaking. It would be Sunday, and...

The Change

...which poured through our pores without breaking through to our need for more water   in the sun. Sun we imagined to disappear yet respected   for growing all things on...

The Crowd He Becomes

...and there, the smirk he'll follow through uniforms and Sunday black, into the park, then lose him as it fills. * Will stand in the blur of what arrives and...

Stones and Shadows

...grass. The shadows of the grass dig into the earth. The shadows of the earth carve the moon into crescents, halves, and empty holes. I notice that the sundial in...