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

The US South and the 2008 Election

Essay At least since the 1960s, every presidential election has elicited abundant commentary on the role of the South in national politics. The 2008 election has been no different. It...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...New England told by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx in her 2016 novel, Barkskins. The subject of a 2020 dramatic series streaming on the National Geographic channel, Proulx's book portrays...

Junction City newspaper

...south has been cruel to the negroes; that they have bulldozed them from the polls with shot-guns and other means. Denial or explanation does no good. The south now sends...

Belle plaine newspaper

Belle Plaine News. "Shot a Negro." June 8, 1911 "Being arrested for killing a 'nigger' was no doubt a surprise to Mr. Abbott, who, reports have it, has killed other...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...New Mexico, Arizona, and California). In a 1917 letter protesting forced smallpox vaccination, or re-vaccination, Miguel Barrera, a Mexican businessman working in Texas, challenged border medical officials' decisions. "When a...

Atchison newspaper

Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...