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

Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones

...Laborers in the Construction of the United States Capitol, Report by the Architect of the Capitol," June 1, 2005, https://emancipation.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/emancipation/publication/attachments/History_of_Slave_Laborers_in_the_Construction_of_the_US_Capitol.pdf. Was this true for the Smithsonian as well? First, a...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...Bailey interviewed by Mary Hufford on April 12, 1996 (AFC 1999/008), http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.104007; Virgil Jarrell interviewed by Mary Hufford on May 23, 1996 (AFC 1999/008), http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.117004. The political economy of the...

You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History

...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...Transformative Potential of Imoinda: An Interview with Joan Anim-Addo," Synthesis 7 (2015):154–163. http://synthesis.enl.uoa.gr/perspectives-from-the-radical-other-7-2015.html. 12 Years a Slave marquee at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival, October 11, 2013. Photograph by...

Writing Appalachia

...Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBiXDNVeSA); Buckwild (http://www.mtv.com/shows/ buckwild/series.jhtml), Squidbillies (https://www.adultswim.com/search?q=squidbillies), and Saturday Night Live's "Appalachian Emergency Room" (http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/appalachian-emergency-room/n12005/). Distorted though they may be, those two views of Appalachia are...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

Introduction The True Image explores the history and output of Scotch-Irish stonecutters in the early backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. For none of them do we have any personal...