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

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...questions require a nuanced definition of the "state," which Díaz does not supply. Like many authors, he uses "state" as a relatively interchangeable term that can refer to law enforcement...

Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]

...daughter's marriage by making a shopping excursion to Charleston to buy special items such as fabric for a wedding quilt. According to family oral tradition, Samuel Snoddy also made such...

The Bulletin—August 21, 2012

...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...

Sweep

...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...

A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State

...19, 2014, http://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/laff-review-arthur-jafa-conducts-multilayered-exploration-of-blackness-in-dreams-are-colder-than-death-159613/. Although two years have passed since my first viewing of Jafa's Dreams, Spillers's provocative statements, along with the film's powerful bridging of the lyrical and the sonic,...

Residues of Border Control

...a populated space and port of entry evoke humanity.2Judith Butler, Frames of War. When Is Life Grievable (London: Verso, 2009), 25. Susan Harbage Page, Yellow toothbrush, Brownsville, Texas, 2007. The populated...