The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...economies seems to be spreading.6See Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor, Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010); Kathryn Newfont, Blue Ridge...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...before daylight, and I go out and it's pitch black, there's no sound and no light, and that's gone. Many times I've been praying, and just thinking, this is just...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. We became fascinated with the funny moments just before or just after he delivered his monologues—such as when he'd yell at his dogs or...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...creatively examining real and imagined spaces and places to address questions of spatial justice. We provide a public, open access platform for work engaged in nuanced discussions of race, space,...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...to the tune "Massa's in the Cold, Cold Ground," a blackface minstrel tune composed by New York songwriter Stephen Foster in 1852, just two years prior to the publication of...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...viaje clandestino por mar y los riesgos que ello supone. En Sistema, la tensión se halla justamente en que el protagonista es atrapado en Miami y no puede volver. Epopeya,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...farther, adapt and adjust, do whatever needed to be done. There are no truly universal feelings about the shared experience of Covid, but there is, I believe, a collective impression...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we need to scale up not only our self-knowledge, but our self-image as quasi-subjects with the terrible power to change the planet, not just individually, but as species-being. Beasts names...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...DNR to encourage educational, cultural, and scientific programs on the island. Sandy West continued living on the island until just recently; at the time of this writing (January 2020), she...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
Introduction Thomas Mullen is the author of four novels, including The Last Town On Earth (2006), which received the James Fenimore Cooper Prize and was recognized by USA Today as...