Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...blood-sweeten'd beverage —Robert Southey, Poems of the Slave Trade, Sonnet III1Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1839), 110. Nothing expresses more viscerally...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. After over a decade of research and surveying, North Carolina and South Carolina have reached an agreement on the official 335-mile border...
Southern Spaces Recommends
Blog Post Eric Solomon, "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" series editor: I've been on a reading streak the past few months. Here are a few I recommend. In terms of...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Desmognathus aeneus Seepage Salamander Desmognathus marmoratus Shovel-nosed Salamander Plethodon teyahalee Southern Appalachian Salamander Desmognathus auriculatus* Southern Dusky Salamander Plethodon metcalfi Southern Gray-cheeked Salamander Plethodon richmondi Southern Ravine Salamander Pseudotriton ruber...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...coalfields of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and east Tennessee. By 1994, the US Department of Energy anticipated a production increase of as much as 24 million tons...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature (1985), and numerous essays, and coeditor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
..."drag superstar" Rachel Wells, and the activist and trailblazer Bill Smith, who is featured in Padgett's excerpt published here with "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces." Padgett, too, is central to...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place series). Ed Scott was not alone...
And the Prize Goes to...
...digital writing projects. All eligible contest articles were published between January 2014 and Spring 2015 and engaged southern studies themes, expansively defined. Our survey included articles from Southern Spaces, Southern...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...current research project, Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009), addresses the socio-cultural contexts, processes, and transformations of Latin American migration to the US South since 1965....