"Aint that Something?"
...more than five hundred mountains, encompassing more than one million acres of central and southern Appalachia" (Appalachian Voices). The mining has not only destroyed mountains and diverse forests, but ruined...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Cold War. Spears's book tells a larger story, too, about the intersection of place, racial segregation, class, the military, and pollution. The Mims were an African American family, their plight...
Quilting Conversation
...and quilting. Quilting Conversation panelists, Atlanta, Georgia, September 22, 2018. From left: Katherine Jentleson, Marquetta Johnson, Michael Moon, Mary Margaret Pettway, and Erin Jane Nelson. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces....
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...bounce, tracing the music's birth, development, and connection to the long trajectory of poor and working-class African American music-making in the city. In doing so, he offers not only a...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...writer, and teacher. He received an MA in English from South Dakota State University in 1991, and his PhD from the University of Oklahoma in 1995. He is the author...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...two African American policemen who were among the first men to desegregate the Atlanta police force, Mullen's novel offers an original perspective on the city's history. Mullen, a resident of...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...años en África (1975–1988), con fuerzas militares cubanas sobre el terreno en nombre de la liberación de Sudáfrica durante ese tiempo. La asociación militar terminó con la independencia de Namibia...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...(2009) and author of A Mess of Greens: Southern Gender and Southern Food (2011). Engelhardt is co-editing (with John T. Edge and Ted Ownby) a forthcoming volume about southern food methodologies....
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the Jindal administration is helping Big Oil rip off a cash-strapped state," Southern Studies, May 7, 2015, http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/05/looting-louisiana-how-the-jindal-administration-is.html. Even some oil and gas firms thought themselves to be under-regulated: "A 1979...