Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sky, "Well, once there was just dark. You ask me, the light's winning."19Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Form and Void," True Detective (HBO, March 9, 2014), Episode 8. ) as a cheap,...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...(Norton, 2000), among others. Rankin writes frequently about photography and the documentary tradition and his photographs have been widely exhibited. Publication Update In January 2019, Southern Spaces updated this publication as part...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
Review Historians Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, professors at California State University, Fresno, have produced a brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging place-based exploration of competing narratives of racial enslavement....
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...we do already know, but what we’re trying to figure out and better understand.”7“Jericho Brown: Small Truths and Other Surprises,” On Being with Krista Tippett, June 6, 2019, https://onbeing.org/programs/jericho-brown-small-truths-and-other-surprises. In...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...the winter months, and invest their gains in labor-saving machinery, such as tractors. Between 1936 and 1941, the Bootheel's tenancy rate—which measured the number of those who did not own...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...too.) Mace's book is by turns useful, clear, thoughtful, and frustrating. Mace argues that the murder of this Chicago youth—who whistled at a white woman at a crossroads grocery store...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...