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Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South.

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CARIBBEAN AND SOUTHERN: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South. Edited by HELEN A. REGIS. vii and 154 pp.; maps, diagrs., ills., bibliog. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0820328316; $19.95 (paper), ISBN 0820328324.

The U.S. South has long been of academic interest, but the region has attracted even greater attention from geographers lately. Indeed, in 2007 the Association of American Geographers approved the formation of a specialty group devoted to the critical study of the South and its cultural, political, economic, and ecological aspects. This "Southern turn" in geography is fueled, in part, by a larger, multidisciplinary effort to analyze the U.S. South in more fluid and hybrid ways than in the past. Although scholars traditionally studied the region as a fixed and tightly bounded entity, current research views southern culture as the dynamic product of exchanges, influences, and interrelationships. The South is increasingly seen as connected to, rather than cut off from, the larger world. Consequently, a new vocabulary is...

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