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

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

...health in Harlem, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC.3Dennis Doyle, Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem 1936-1968 (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016); Jay Garcia, Psychology Comes to Harlem: Rethinking the...

Religion and the US South

...Appalachia, into the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama,and Mississippi, into northern Louisiana and east Texas, and into southern Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma—creating a Baptist domain within the US South,...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...El Paso, El Paso County Texas, 1886. Lithograph by Augustus Koch. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, Perspective map of the city of Laredo, Texas, the...

Writing Appalachia

...to study the effects of extractive industrial economies in Jason Miller's Pennsylvania and Harry Caudill's Kentucky. Wabash Bridge, Monongahela River, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, ca. 1908. Photograph of 8x10 dry glass plate...

Whiskey and Geography

...the Pennsylvania backwoods of the 1700s, everyone made and drank whiskey, no matter their standing in the community. The newcomers built both farm-based distilleries and larger-scale commercial operations in the...