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

Residues of Border Control

...on the US bank of the Rio Grande, Brownsville, Texas, 2008. Susan Harbage Page, Buried comb, Brownsville, Texas, 2010.   Susan Harbage Page, Argyle sock, Brownsville, Texas, 2007.   The photographs portray...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...23 May 2008, http://www.sgvtribune.com/ci_9322048; and Jay Allen Sanford, "Drive-In Theaters in San Diego: Complete Illustrated History 1947 thru 2008," San Diego Weekly Reader, 1 August 2008, online version, http://www.sandiegoreader.com/weblogs/bands/2008/aug/01/drive-in-theaters-in-san-diego-complete-illustrate/.  When...

Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology

...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...

Encountering COVID

...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...University of Texas at Austin, examines several episodes of epidemic disease occurring among the towns lining the Texas-Mexican border across nearly a century. He argues that these medical emergencies expose...