The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Clockwork Regularity." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Vestibule." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Stones and Shadows." Poem text. About Dan Albergotti Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina,...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces is proud to launch a fresh design for our journal today, stage one in a two-stage rollout of our newly redeveloped publishing platform. The new design emphasizes visual...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...sources that historians dream of. The records from Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, Virginia (still operating as Eastern State Hospital) remained hidden in a storage closet in the patient library...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...San Marcos, to Austin, to Big Bend National Park near the West Texas-Mexico border, the film has a vast canvas that contrasts with the seeming smallness of the story to...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...site bounded by the contemporary streets of Abbot St. (east), Louisville Rd. (south), railroad tracks parallel to Hopper St. (west) and Old Lathrop and Augusta Avenue to the north. At...
The Liminal Site
...to its new home, the game is just about over. Despite all encouragement and direction, most homeowners run right home and find the sunniest, driest, and nastiest site with the...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...also to the nation more generally. And it was far and away the most telling disaster in our national experience. Katrina stripped away the outer surface of our social structure...