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

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...

Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]

...number of short pieces are joined to augment the width, and one of these has a small irregular patch, suggesting mending of some previous damage. The backing was still too...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...showing the locations of Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, 1882. Courtesy of Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, catalog number 98688791. Fevered Measures surveys smallpox and yellow fever epidemics...

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

Advertisement announcing reward for runaway slave, Wilmington Advertiser, May 24, 1839. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) and North...

Residues of Border Control

...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...worker experiences (12–13). Hatcher, Chas. F. Slave Depot advertisement, New Orleans, ca. 1861. Advertisement originally published in Gardner's New Orleans Directory for 1861 (Gardner, 1861). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019), 183. Although under different labels, other projects also aim at a radical ecological bifurcation. For example, L'avenir...

Bodies and Souls

...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...