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

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...coalfields of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and east Tennessee. By 1994, the US Department of Energy anticipated a production increase of as much as 24 million tons...

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...show up in southern West Virginia or eastern Kentucky and open factories and offices. I wrote the Commons Communities Act after months of thinking about how the people of the...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...also facing off against Halpert's bulky, furniture-sized machine to offer her own definitive repertoire of southern vernacular culture for the archive. A copy of Halpert's "Tentative Record Check List" from...

Roadside Architecture

...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...