American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the coast, Theriot asserts broader spatial implications: developments in offshore drilling and wetland science around the world developed in and through the Gulf of Mexico. His account is largely descriptive,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...on her own terms she is a gargantua. The poster for the film shows the actress in darkness—her legs striding the ground, arms reaching out like Leonardo's Vitruvian Man and...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...at Florida International University. His first book, Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, explores John Sewell's 1933 notion of Florida as "a playground for the Nation" specifically through his...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...is our concept of Christianity: and this raging plague has the power to destroy every human relationship. I once took a short trip with Medgar Evers to the backwoods of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...South" is precisely the assumptions that have accumulated around it, the conceptual baggage generated by earlier generations of scholarship and popular belief that, arguably, has served to obscure as much...
The Bulletin—September 21, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Greece and Virginia, blurring the categories of “return,” “home,” and “country." Even if they did not make return trips, migrants’ ties to their home countries frequently remained strong and have...
The Boatloads
...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...was many things to us," he recalled. "Preacher, prophet, picker, poet. He had an uncanny way of making whoever gathered around him feel like they were part of the mix,...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...