Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...has absorbed them, is using them, and will build upon them. In some places, social change comes in the volcanic eruption of revolution, while in academia change generally comes from...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...it's lit up and is never going to change. The quiet is gone and it's never going to change." Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...in a chapter on "Fiction Writing and Social Change." Gray understands the irony of the word "aberration," its message that the canonized "southern" writing has not taken this path into...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...violence against Black people—and all other forms of systemic racial oppression—and demanding accountability and meaningful change. We support the Black Lives Matter movement, and we denounce white supremacy, police brutality,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...main cause of change for earth itself. Chakrabarty argues that humans now wield a separate geological force and that we must scale up our imagination of the human, the consciousness...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Biggers Papers, Emory University Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. In July 1957, Houston-based artist John Biggers traveled on a United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) fellowship to...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...his compatriots took up arms against the United States in order to preserve a society based on slave labor and white supremacy. Stephanie Batiste-Bentham, an African American interpreter who worked...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...but its last appearance is in 1807—a year before the United States prohibited the importation of slaves. This shift in the visuality of slavery might be of interest to scholars...