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

Mississippi Delta

...of the region, especially to Chicago, a main migration location for Delta blacks. The Illinois Central Railroad became a powerful symbol to African Americans of escape from the Delta and...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

Introduction I begin an exploration of the history of prejudice by looking at the process of othering—or social and political distancing—that is a central part of the history of African...