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

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...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...fellow conspirators, tasting two thousand oysters from all along the Gulf Coast. It was the first symposium hosted by Foodways Texas, an organization dedicated to preserving, promoting, and celebrating the...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...