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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

...imperial medical intervention. A syndicate-owned cotton plantation in Mapimi, Mexico, had recruited over one hundred African American sharecroppers from Alabama to become "colonists," and relocate to Mexico to provide labor...

Residues of Border Control

...Security boxes, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with label, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010.   Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain...

Southern Spaces: A Partial History

...admirable policy of not having students work for free. Luckily, it didn't take long for then-managing-editor Sarah Toton to find the needed funding to add another position. I joined Southern...

The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance

...to be remembered long after the fighting stopped."The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance" delves into the recorded past of a particularly fierce engagement between the United States and the...

When the Border Crossed Me

...afternoon I walked out of my farm field to meet five men from Mexico. They drove into my driveway in an old beat up blue Impala, got out in the...