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

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...discusses “Miscegenation,” “The South,” “Saturday Matinee,” “Elegy,” “Mexico,” “The Book of Castas” and new work  About Natasha Trethwey Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished...

When the Border Crossed Me

...marketing that there was no way I could pick everything I could sell. Orders had piled up, and the farmers' market was just a few days away. The small group...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Prosecution Now!! 7 p.m. - Benediction at the historic memorial marker dedicated to the legacy of Roger and Dorothy Malcom (and Justice, unborn infant) and George and Mae Murray Dorsey. Here’s a...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...imperial medical intervention. A syndicate-owned cotton plantation in Mapimi, Mexico, had recruited over one hundred African American sharecroppers from Alabama to become "colonists," and relocate to Mexico to provide labor...

The Bulletin—May 8, 2013

...South Carolina's first congressional district voted to elect former Governor Mark Sanford to fill Congressman Tim Scott's seat in the House of Representatives. Last December, Governor Nikki Haley appointed Congressman...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (Fall 2011). Engelhardt is also co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming volume about southern food methodologies. Originally...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...hallmark of many of the materials in the Florida Folklife collection. Kennedy includes translations and explanations for the vast majority of the materials he collected in Ybor City. In many...