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

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...Mckiernan-González's impressive work Fevered Measures reminds us that the intertwining connections of race, health, and exclusion have a long history in the United States. Mckiernan-González, an assistant professor of history at the...

Residues of Border Control

...Population” Migration Policy Institute Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute, 2011). The Pew Hispanic Center 2010 census tabulations of growth in Hispanic population (i.e., not necessarily foreign born) show that South...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...from place to place. Pargas divides the nation's enslaved population into three major groups—interstate migrants, intrastate migrants, and those who were hired to urban employers. These categories frame his argument...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...topics covered when histories of America's recent past are written and discussed. To a large extent, first drafts of our national COVID-19 history have been assembled, produced in near real-time...

Writing Appalachia

...succinctly: "the mountaineer, [and] his struggles with himself, nature, and the outside world."12Robert J. Higgs and Ambrose Manning, Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia (1975), xvii. While...