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

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...expand in academic disciplines beyond the boundaries of their origins set some fifty years ago as black studies, to extend beyond courses in literature, history, and the social sciences and...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...stand for bric-a-brac," a marble-topped mahogany table, two large upholstered rosewood sofas, two large chairs and five smaller chairs covered in the same material, and unspecified bric-a-brac. In contrast, the...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...and policies and ordinary people's responses, experiences, and understandings of health and illness. Her current project examines the  various protests against Agent Orange herbicides during and after the Vietnam War....

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...

Residues of Border Control

...immigrants who went through its doors between 1892 and 1954, the US Congress passed restrictive immigration legislation and attached anti-immigrant provisions to crime, welfare, and anti-narcotics legislation.10Desmond King and Inés...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...white southerners were up to their ears in a market system that drew its strength and vitality from a worldwide demand for cotton. Cotton and capital functioned as the dual...