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

Birth Right

...Statistics. Infant Mortality Slideshow. Montgomery, Alabama: Alabama Department of Public Health, 2008.  Advocates assert that midwives could also help lower the state's high infant mortality rate of 9.5 deaths per 1,000...

The Liminal Site

...patch with Trillium cuneatum in foreground, Alabama snow-wreath left of the bench, and Rhododendron 'Maxecat' at bottom left corner. Birmingham, Alabama, March 30, 2008. Photograph by Jon Smith.   From...

Religion and the US South

...The years around 1830 were fateful ones for a developing sense of a southern sectional identity. While social and cultural distinctiveness had already developed below the Mason-Dixon Line, the Missouri...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...unpaved streets in some sections."7"Negroes' Most Urgent Needs," Inez Jessie Baskin Papers, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama, as displayed at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/2019. All...