Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...exemplars of our site's improved display of images. A blog post by Mark Auslander on a lynching reenactment that crossed paths with a Confederate flag rally features a variety of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...top players versus other regions, particularly the Sunbelt.1Marc Tracy, "As Big Ten Declines, Homegrown Talent Flees," New York Times, October 3, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/sports/ncaafootball/as-big-ten-declines-homegrown-talent-fades-and-flees.html. Tracy missed one very important point, however,...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...a description of the series from the University of Texas Press: In 2005 Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Gulf Coast and precipitated the flooding of New Orleans. It was a towering...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Jews were blamed for the problems that beset the southern people. Christian Anti-Jewish Party flyer, circa 1950. Ralph McGill papers, Emory University Special Collections. The desegregation crises of the 1950s...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Texas during the second half of the nineteenth century, participation in Sacred Harp has been tied to local, church, and kinship networks.1George Pullen Jackson, White...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007