Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...imagining a postracial America long before Obama emerged on the national political stage.5See especially Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
Introduction Typical spatial arrangement of the hollow square at the annual Sacred Harp singing at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Fayette County, Alabama. Illustration by Jesse P. Karlsberg. Sacred Harp singing...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Historical Atlas of Georgia Counties, http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/histcountymaps/index.htm; Ga. Acts, Dec. 3, 1832, http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu; Daniel Haskel and J. Calvin Smith, A Complete Descriptive and Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...environmental causes have often participated in actions to oppose racial injustice, eliminate poverty, and achieve gender equality. Such alliances have been essential to the success of the environmental movement. "Negroes'...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...of queering was central to utopian reimaginations of rural space in early women's liberation. Creating autonomous women's space and queer space was a central focus of women's communes and the...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...(Peter Wilderness), Case No. 101 (Walter Johnson), Case No. 72 (Ike Tripp), Case No. 41 (Daniel McClenton), Case No. 7 (Alonzo Julian), all in Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1,...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...blacks battled to end segregation altogether, Mexican American white racial formation ran counter to African American aims" (8). Rather than trying to destroy an inherently unjust social order, "Mexican American...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...alongside the old Carondelet Canal, and to New Orleans's ubiquitous neutral grounds, as median strips are called in these parts. The Spanish had excavated the canal (also known as the...
Birth Right
...1989, Alabama had one of the highest rates of rural hospital closings in the nation.2Health Care Information Resources Group for the American Hospital Association. (March 1994). Hospital Closures 1980-1993: A...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...into ritual and reenactment from Pete Richardson and Rick Parmentier. I also am grateful for careful readings by Allen Tullos, the Southern Spaces editorial staff, and the anonymous readers for Southern Spaces. ...