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

Encountering COVID

...in a window, looking at her family two stories down, waving up at the window. That's powerful commitment. Growing up, my father was a soldier who went to Vietnam twice....

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...and policies and ordinary people's responses, experiences, and understandings of health and illness. Her current project examines the  various protests against Agent Orange herbicides during and after the Vietnam War....

Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack

...loved one they would never meet again. As at the adjacent Vietnam Veterans Memorial, one could imagine this exhibition space becoming a pilgrimage destination, where visitors leave objects, photographs, heirlooms,...

Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler

...sit-ins and commercial-bus freedom rides of 1960–1961. In later years, Campbell spoke eloquently against the Vietnam War, capital punishment, unregulated guns, overbearing government power, abortion on demand, and the invasion...

Cajun South Louisiana

...War Information Black-and-White Negatives. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC. The emergence of the oil and petrochemical industries in the early twentieth century promoted modernization and movement...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...