Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the Haunted South," The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, eds. Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), 238–62. Seven Cherokee chief delegates accompanying...
Good-Bye to All That?
...September 2013 Dan T. Carter wrote for Southern Spaces about the tumult in North Carolina government. It is a pattern repeated across the South. In the aftermath of the 1968...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...Environments and Ecologies Indigenous Souths Queer Souths Reading and Writing Souths Religion Social Memory and Memorialization Southern Screens Southern Spaces will update our educational resources as we publish new scholarship,...
Submission Guidelines
Southern Spaces combines innovative scholarship about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South with the tools of digital media. We publish work that represents and analyzes many souths...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...largely on biographer Catherine Fosl’s book, Subversive Southerner (2006), Southern Patriot is narrated principally by Braden. Fosl makes multiple appearances, recounting in a riveting statement early on that throughout Braden's...
Public Health in the US and Global South
Introduction "Southern Epidemic: How HIV Became Our Problem," screenshot from Atlanta's WSB-TV coverage of the CDC's findings, May 6, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces, October 6, 2016. Global patterns of development...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...1/2 hours. Streaming audio and transcription of interview. Source: Documenting the American South, Southern Oral History Program, Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/K-253/menu.html Interview with...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...are in extreme poverty were in the South.2 The Southern Education Foundation's South includes fifteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,...
Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...