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

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

Faculty and students of the Appalachian Culture Semester, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1980. Dr. Patricia Beaver, professor emeritus and former director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, standing...

Vernacular and Universal Prejudice

...power; of groups who believe they are above the law and other requirements of 'civil' society, at least in their dealings with certain kinds of people; and of unshaken belief...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...southern identity as much as I have hoped for at least a temporary ban on men in cowboy hats recording songs about the joys of small town southern life. This...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...With the spring vegetation, it was hidden just then, but Lydde knew where it was, behind a fold of land down and to the left. Farther east, once midway up...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...

Bricking the Church

...back when they set their minds and savings to it. They wanted to assert its form and presence if not in stone at least in hardened earth, urban weight, as...