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

Residues of Border Control

...Security boxes, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010. Susan Harbage Page, Department of Homeland Security box with label, Matamoros, Mexico, 2010.   Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain...

"Aint that Something?"

...Dickey's Deliverance didn't help things— portraying Appalachian people as menacing, stupid, and inbred. The damaging stereotypes of Appalachia persist, as Emily Satterwhite explains in Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...Appalachian households might attend college, but it does not come close to addressing the larger cultural problem of why high school kids in Appalachia often don't apply. In Hillbilly Elegy...