Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...go. This is our monster, too. About the Author Grace Elizabeth Hale teaches cultural history and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Making Whiteness:...
The Dirt Eaters
...famili ar as the smell of dirt. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...of history at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. He is currently working on a book for Hill and Wang about the Nat Turner revolt of 1831 in Southampton County, Virginia....
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...Jennifer Rae Greeson is associate professor of English at University of Virginia. Her publications include Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)....
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...inverting it as a pair of West Virginians try to repair their new vacation home in the mountains and are repeatedly harassed by a group of college kids convinced that...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...Atlanta's Southern Regional Council. In 1977–1978, he was journalist-in-residence at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Egerton has written or edited eleven non-fiction books and contributed over two-hundred articles to...