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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

...merely safe might prefer to ignore. –Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 7 Susan Harbage Page photographs objects found at the international border (objects trouvés), in the Rio...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

...State Hospital, Petersburg, Virginia, 1915. Photographs by unknown creator. Originally published in the Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Central State Hospital of Virginia (Petersburg) for the Fiscal Year Ending September...

Editors

...and Gender Studies Department of Sociology Virginia Tech Blacksburg, Virginia Barbara Ellen Smith is professor emerita of women’s and gender studies in the Department of Sociology at Virginia Tech. She...

Religion and the US South

...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...