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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

...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...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....

Nigger Street 1937

...late-staying patrons     early in country churches on Sunday mornings     and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together    ...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

...from his hair on the steps of local churches. Maybe it was the end of many letters, the last of hospital days, another sleight to make his hand come alive...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...never wrote coiled in field reports and requisitions, and three days later a church-bomb in Birmingham blew the stained-glass face of Christ like a dandelion head in the roadside weeds....

Off-Season

...for a desk on cinder block. He chuckled much like you at the sight of me, but the fields and breaking horses, justified my ninety pounds of lean. Next day...