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

Submission Guidelines

...a title, an abstract of less than one hundred words, citations in footnotes, recommended resources (divided into "Text," "Web," "Audio/Video," and "Related Southern Spaces Publications"), and page numbers. Please use...

Finding Media

...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...

I-26, Corridor of Change

...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...Barbara J. Fields, "Whiteness, Racism, and Identity," International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (Fall 2001): 48–56. perhaps because lynching "seemed to define in the starkest terms the virulence of white...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...of black markets along international borders. There is a robust and growing literature that understands the "state" as simultaneously holding a monopoly on the legitimate use of force and as...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...he pursued with his characteristic vigor but could not realize due to a lack of institutional support and funds. Crossing the international bridge between Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas,...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

Introduction Herman J. Russell Home at 714 Shorter Terrace in the Collier Heights neighborhood of Atlanta, 2015. In August 2015, the Collier Heights home of Herman J. Russell (1930–2014), African...