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

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...interesting case of marijuana prohibition, Isaac Campos makes the convincing argument that Mexican elites actually beat the United States to the punch by regulating it first, though typically U.S. politicians,...

Whiskey and Geography

...no one desperate enough to take the job.8Ibid. Resistance to the whiskey tax politicized and united many local communities in ways that no other issue had before. Even as Secretary...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...the 1974 Wales Miners' Strike, part of a series of national mining strikes across the United Kingdom. When Gaventa returned to the United States, sociologist Helen Lewis invited him to show the...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...the zone of the American tropics, in which Monique Allewaert includes the United States and the Caribbean. Each of the chapters focuses on expressions of a "minoritarian colonial conception of...

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...artist. Born in Memphis in 1939, Eggleston grew up there and in Sumner, Mississippi, at his grandparent's home. While Eggleston has worked across the United States including Califorinia, New York,...