Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...won Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. He also challenged seriously in Georgia and potentially could have won the state had he not pulled out resources in the aftermath of the...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Work
...and louder to rapture. About the Author Darnell Arnoult was born in Martinsville, Virginia in 1955 to a Baptist beautician from Draper, North Carolina and a Catholic architect from Memphis,...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). For Cuban writer Antonio Benítez Rojo as well, the sites of slavery and...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...an equally fastidious upper-class Virginia narrator, yet one who more vocally describes the threats to his own way of life: "how could" a jolly Virginian, Baldwin asks, "believe that that...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
Series editor: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia. Submission deadline: March 17, 2014. Questions: write to managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, online journal, invites scholars, critics,...