Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...sonic qualities and mostly invented "folk" histories. Instead, musicians shared a broad, interracial musical culture and the tastes of southern working class and middle-class, black and white listeners overlapped. All...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...salt marshes, also called "smooth cordgrass" or simply "Spartina." Ebb-tidal delta – Delta-shaped deposit of sediment formed on the seaward side of a coastal inlet as a result of strong ebb...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...1973), 239–240, 299–300. Brown uses the West-Central African worldsense to discern the spiritual dimensions of mundane acts, such as planting, fishing, and hunting, as well as the African spiritual elements...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...of knowledge valued within the settler societies in their midst was a crucial step in assuring political, economic, and territorial sovereignty. By the early 1800s a small but powerful class...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...a class of free rural cultivators out of slavery with relatively ambiguous land ownership rights. This book builds and expands on this work by focusing on the legal dynamics within...
Deep Ellum Blues
...tradition has remained the bluesiest of the regional variations of country music, including the honky tonk classics of Ernest Tubb and Hank Thompson. Another version of a blues/country synthesis returned...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...have visualized the extent of the various laws that cover petrochemical operations, showing the overlaps and gaps amid which companies do business. Including the human dimensions of the systems Petrochemical...
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...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...dated 13 February 1960. Permission granted by The Mary Flannery O'Connor Charitable Trust. All rights reserved. Available through Emory's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Qualifications and reservations aside, O'Connor...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...already selling vast quantities of grain and other products there, or that the embargo on trade with Cuba does not apply to US agribusiness. We are not told that thousands...