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

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...communities and landscapes in a structure for sustaining both.6Tim Barnwell, The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm (New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 121, 122, 126. The project...

Religion and the US South

...Indigenous peoples had their own religious systems that the coming of European Christianity disrupted, but the Native American presence left a spiritual legacy. More tangible influences of spirit-related health practices...