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

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...labor-intensive to capital-intensive operations and, spurred by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) subsidies, expensive machines and chemicals dominated remaining farms. Black farmers were often unable to obtain credit, information,...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...