The Place of Appalachia
...the state (except in its coercive apparatus of law enforcement) finds parallels across vast portions of rural Appalachia, where deindustrialization and disinvestment are no less severe.5Ronald D. Eller, Uneven Ground:...
Julius Hartman
...of his life. "The beautifying of Ponce de Leon park. "There are thirty acres of ground out there that present grander possibilities for improvement than any place in this country....
Submission Process
...how Southern Spaces makes sure that we’re sending the highest quality work to peer reviewers. Once authors have received their peer review feedback, we begin the final round of...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...the continued resilience of white supremacy, Mississippi Praying closes by arguing that Christian moral suasion did little to effect change. For Dupont, the "holy symbiosis" of white supremacy and evangelicalism...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...thing called "Southernness," like these songs, is by now at least a copy of a copy of a copy, with little grounding in anything material outside of the money to...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...just one decade. In this context, as Goetz writes: "The dismantling of public housing makes little sense as housing policy" (177). By the end of the twentieth century, public housing...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...wheat production. Unlike tobacco or cotton, wheat required bursts of intense labor at harvest, followed by relative lulls in activity. In order to maximize their investments in year-round, bound labor,...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...of a Man. "Johnson" describes how one of "his" songs, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," was put on a record that went out with the Voyager space...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Usually she would wake my two siblings and me at 6:45, leave around 7:00 with makeup done but hot curlers still in her hair, return around 7:45, remove the curlers,...