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

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (New York: Little, Brown Spark 2020);  Scott Gottlieb, Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic (New...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...Power: The Rise of Classes and Nation States, 1760–1914 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Several other key texts, both old and new, engage directly with the problem of state...

Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone

...pleasurable aspects of living in what some contemporary anthropologists and political theorists call a “shatter zone.” Landscape, Winter's Bone, 2010. The term “shatter zone” originated in nineteenth-century geology, to mean...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...American history. She was born one month after the ill-fated mass escape of enslaved people on the schooner The Pearl, the largest attempted self-liberation event in antebellum US history. She...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...

An Oyster by Any Other Name

...engaged. We could locate oysters and restore nineteenth-century reef names because food historians such as Robb Walsh found maps and newspaper stories from before the beds were scientifically coded and...