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

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...markings, 2007.   The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...

Casino, Ponce de Leon Park

Advertisement for Ponce de Leon Park Casino and Ostrich Farm, Atlanta Constitution, 1906. circa 1908 circa 1910 The sign below the circle swing reads: "Ponce de Leon is a private...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...in Mexico displays the predictable symptoms of previous drug wars from Southeast Asia to Colombia, including law enforcement's preoccupation with "kingpins," a strong government preference for criminal justice and military...