Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...studies offerings and presenting significant new scholarship. We encourage scholars to submit panels that engage with ideas of space and place. Below is the SLSA's call for panels. The Many...
Old Elementary
Terrified or furious, my brother would call me: it's in there, he'd swear, in the old elementary— desperate to blame something—asbestos, radiation, unhappiness itself— to place, displace the cancer onto...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. It's true crime that thoughtfully, and critically, examines Appalachia as a place, real and imagined. Carol Anderson, Southern Spaces editorial board...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...creatively examining real and imagined spaces and places to address questions of spatial justice. We provide a public, open access platform for work engaged in nuanced discussions of race, space,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...freedom to stay in place and their need to leave home to keep their farm alive. I was a beginning farmer hiring seasoned agriculturalists from another country to help make...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place series). Ed Scott was not alone...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem "Tuscaloosa: Riversong," July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...