Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...it is here that we learn the way that mental institutions operated in the wake of slavery. Despite Galt's insistence on 'intermingling,' Gonaver shows that Black patients in Virginia's asylums...
Substantiation
...couldn't find him in the dark. They say that Moses brought him out at last, that someone else was in the truck to say that it was him that did...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...point of the lynching back then in '46. The police came by that night of the lynching and ordered all the colored people off the streets. That's just what they...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...to it, and that its limitations and restrictions actually discouraged many from risking escape to achieve that somewhat dubious status. On the other hand, it was the experience of fugitive...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...that day I really had to think what a white man felt like, driving that car, taking our people to their deaths. Really made me think, you know?” The Moore’s...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...hog and they'd take the livers and lights and all like that and make hash. They'd have a frolic and sell that hash to the people that came to dance.'"13Fussell,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...While we know that earlier he goes with Jewel to get a load of wood that "means three dollars" (17, 19), we never see Faulkner's Darl working, a fact that...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and that the urban model "incompletely and inadequately gets at the shape and scope of queer life."3Howard, Men Like That, 15. He suggests new models for understanding that queer life,...