Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...Abroad (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 259. is dedicated to the approximately 600 Swiss Guards who died while unsuccessfully defending the French royal family in August 1792, during the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...election, novelist Colson Whitehead published a characteristically biting New York Times editorial entitled "The Year of Living Postracially": "One year ago today, we officially became a postracial society. Fifty-three percent of the voters opted...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...ways. We fervently hope for "a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."2"About," Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/about. Southern Spaces is a journal devoted to critically and...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...there were relatively few queer community studies of the early twentieth century, especially for locations in the US South. Miami's history differed greatly from cities we know much more about,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...depictions of Cajuns that preceded in fiction and film? Cajun children, 1940 Cajun proprietor of barroom, 1938 GAUTREAUX: I don't really think about it. I know that's probably not what...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...the Eastern Shore of Maryland was economically and demographically similar to Accomack on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, but blacks in Somerset were far more likely to be lynched or...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...the Okefenokee region, early singing schools occasionally were held in the Primitive Baptist churches (outside formal worship), but more frequently took place in rural country schools. David Lee holds a...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...prison in the state each year, the transition is less certain. Some will move into the only re-entry facility owned and operated by the state (which can only accommodate four...
Monkey Puzzle
Video Monkey Puzzle, 2008....