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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

...achieve the hygienic practices that kept middle-class and wealthy Anglo and Mexican American homes clean and free of disease was lost on these public health officials. Exposing Anglo Americans' privileges...

The Black Belt

...of the modern American freedom struggle. In the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott, the figures of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. helped bring international attention to the mass mobilization...

August, 1959: Morning Service

...like churned butter, my eyes closed, freed my mind into the light on the window’s other side, followed the dreamy bell-ring of Randy Ford's cows across Licklog Creek to a...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...Jim Crow provinces, with the latter often refusing to budge. The Mississippi guide described the typical black inhabitant as "a genial mass of remarkable qualities…carefree and shrewd....As for the Negro...

Southern SpacesĀ Recommends

...novel. For a powerfully written and argued history of the role of violence and force in the abolitionist movement, read Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the...