Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...by Cynthia Scott. © Cynthia Scott. Mann was on vacation when the storm struck on August 29, 2005, so, like viewers all over the world, he watched television coverage of...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...here, but they really have to work at it." In closing, I'd like to make another sort of case. I'd like to argue that Spartanburg and the Hub City Writers...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Pennsylvania" a reliable treat. Listen to Stein read excerpts from The Making of America Once out of Allegheny, Stein, like her teacher William James and his brother Henry and their...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...in Patricia Sullivan, Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 67. Unlike Odum and Johnson, however, Daniels wrote...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...like the big bass. It looks like a bass. So the musicians as I spoke about like Milford Dolliole and Tio with Chocolate Milk, which is a funk band—and there...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...toward other rural and urban areas known as "new settlement" destinations. Potential employment opportunities fueled migration to southern cities as well as attracted a growing number of foreign-born workers. Unlike...