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

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

...of enslaved Africans as well as the Catholic religiosity of Irish immigrants with what passed for modern scientific rationale.17Fett, Working Cures; Willoughby, "Running Away from Drapetomania;" Deidre Cooper Owens, Medical...

Remnants of Flannery

...to mount a production of The Violent Bear It Away and a television series based on her short stories. Irish filmmaker John Michael McDonagh has also recently stated that he...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Album, 1–2. In 1825, with the signing of the infamous Treaty of Indian Springs between the United States and the Creek Nation, the way was opened for the forced final...

Deep Ellum Blues

...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...intimacy in which viewers are invited to sit alongside. It is an image used in the film's promotion: Mildred sits in Richard's lap, holding his head close to her chest....