Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...and/or urban; as a single region, or as multiple regions, e.g. the Mountain South, Deep South; as part of the Caribbean, Gulf Coast, and/or Atlantic World; and as a region...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...or Bayou and later left as young adults for educational and career opportunities. The act of photography for them provides a way to return home, to recover the memories and...
A Mess of Poke
...Kudzu and pokeweed in grocery store parking lot, Decatur, Georgia, 2011. My guess is that poke sallet still carries an aftertaste of poverty. Folks ate it because they were poor,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...was exciting was the sense that everyone who was willing to read widely, listen carefully, and contribute generously would be part of building a critical community. The exchange that takes...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...