Margaret Walker's "Micah" (1970)
...of deceit. We do not fear them. They shall not enter the City of good-will. We shall dwell under our vine and fig tree in peace. And they shall not...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
Review Peter Harholdt, Radcliffe Bailey in his studio with Clean Up II, November 2010. Over the last two decades, Radcliffe Bailey has produced some of the most distinctive art in...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...the bandannas with railroad men, and the simplicity of its construction may have seemed appropriate for a small boy. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
Bricking the Church
Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...some of these images also hang in New York City, pushes a metaphoric reading of these sometimes snowbound and other times fecund places as stand-ins for the human psyche. Anyone...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...shows—slavery's flexibility was a sign of its continuing strength, Grivno argues that in northern Maryland slavery's increasing plasticity was a mark of its decline.1Jonathan D. Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...there are Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Studies, and Creative Writing. She lives with her partner, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg, in Jersey City, New Jersey. For many years when...