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

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...racist constructions validated exclusionary actions, such as the demonization of the Chinese that rationalized the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act. Fevered Measures ends with the declaration that "Mexicans, Mexican immigrants, and...

Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby

...worker. Confectionery "is the art of creating sugar-based dessert forms, of subtleties."13"Confectionery," Wikipedia, accessed June 30, 2014, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confectionery. Exhibit chief curator Nato Thompson explains that subtleties are "sugar sculptures that...

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...and interested readers. Southern Spaces publishes work in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines that represents and analyzes many souths and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any...

The Black Belt

...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...

August, 1959: Morning Service

...spring pool where orange salamanders swirled and scuttled like flames. It was not muttered words that urged me back to that church, nor was it the hard comfort of pews...