Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...sugarcane land, once a volatile but powerful economic life-force, is idle and in poor condition. Even with its admirable innovations in sustainable and organic farming, Cuba's domestic agricultural producers cannot...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the 1860s as a technique for silk patchwork, but it quickly achieved wide popularity and was reproduced in cottons and woolens as well. Quilters of later generations incorrectly assumed from...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...never lost its original popularity as a pleasure ride. The line was soon increased in extent and branches were built to the Piedmont exposition grounds and other points of interest...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...It excludes the many immigrant groups that have made the South their home over the generations—Chinese, Lebanese, Italians, and more recently, Indians, Vietnamese, Africans, Hispanics. It ignores queer southern communities...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...took place at the University of Oklahoma in the fall of 1991. As fate would have it, I was in that course. A non-Indian graduate student in anthropology, Pam Innes,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...it boomed, had an increasingly hard time presenting itself as a "single community" around which all residents could rally and with which all residents identified (121). Residents instead sought out...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...access to better schools, and find jobs, and the volume of their migration increased during World War I as jobs opened in northern industries. As I discussed in Dispossession, three...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...classified by number. We heard the poetry in old names used by local fishermen and women perhaps because Stoops’ background includes an English degree, making him inclined to favor the...