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

Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America

...theorization becomes most apparent where Dubcovsky vacillates between the historiographically loaded term—the “South”—and la tierra adentro. Dubcovsky devotes only a paragraph to explicating the decision to use "early South" to...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...the convention. When yellow fever receded from northern port cities after 1800, “Charleston proved to be a better host than those places,” McCandless quips, “in part because it was warmer...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...of the 1920s and later, often met with sharp and widespread disapproval in border societies (22, 41, 113–114). There are critical distinctions, as Díaz notes, between amateur smuggling and professional...

Remnants of Flannery

...O'Connor as animal] uses a couple of notable elements of O'Connor's appearance (Those glasses! Those pearls!) to tell a very different story."5Ibid. Hatfield herself has previously made a portrait of...

The Change

...make camp at Qualla Boundary     and the Oconaluftee would be free of tourists and filled with snow and those of us who held out forever and had no...

Seneca Quarry

...quarry during the construction of the Smithsonian Castle. While overt evidence confirming that slave labor was used (such as a contract between a slave owner and a contractor to lease...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....