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

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...is more wild than free, and her thoughtful face summons archetypes of abandonment. Quvenzhané Wallis as Hushpuppy. Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth Century Fox, 2012. Hushpuppy's near...

The Bulletin—July 10, 2012

...that federal rgulators have failed to protect coal miners in eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia from breathing excessive amounts of toxic coal dust over the last thirty...

Local Color

...practitioners of local color, writing out of backwoods Georgia, James River plantation Virginia, or Creole New Orleans adapted regional peculiarities of all kinds to plots that frequently hinged on one...

Negotiating Black Identities

Video   Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...won Florida, Virginia, and North Carolina. He also challenged seriously in Georgia and potentially could have won the state had he not pulled out resources in the aftermath of the...