“You Don’t Want to Sound Like You’re from Alabama”: Resonances of Place and Race in Student Narratives of The South

Using sounded methodologies, this paper attunes to the sonic and discursive slippages between how and Alabama are invoked in college student narratives of navigating the socio-historical context of race on a University campus. Listening and composing with sound offers a methodology for mapping the discursive, intellectual, and material geographies that reify and perpetuate the histories and ongoing traumas of white supremacy and racialization in higher education curriculum spaces at the same time as it offers entry points for refusing, re-negotiating, and resisting these legacies.