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Southern Spaces

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

Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease

Barbara Ellen Smith

Black and white photograph of Jim Miller writing 'Appalachian literature' on a chalk board.

Writing Appalachia

Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd

You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History

Jessica Wilkerson

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

Barbara Ellen Smith

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia

Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake

E. James West and Ann Pancake

"Aint that Something?"

Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

Chad Berry, Shaunna L. Scott, et al.

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, et al.

Bricking the Church

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

Besieged Terrain

Gerald T. Thurmond

The Place of Appalachia

Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith

Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway

I-26 looking west at Buckner Gap, Madison County,
North Carolina, 2008

Bridge reconstruction, Marshall, North Carolina, 2006

Single Centers of Creation?

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

Shirley Stewart Burns

New Shades o'Death Creek

Denise Giardina