Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Continuing bitterness is not far from the surface. One man carried a sign, initials only — KAI. A Northern Ireland student told us that meant "Kill All Irish." The next...
Roadside Architecture
...photographs that follow are of portions of the humanly-made physical landscape in Mississippi and other parts of the deep South. More specifically, they focus on buildings in rural or, occasionally,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the clouds closed quietly around the moon as the thunder rumbled and the heavy drops began to fall, slowly at first, then irregularly, then increasing to a rhythmic rush of...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...years. But mostly, what I do is all about time and place and memory. So, for the next little bit, I would like to share some of my work from...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...black intellectualism continue as ornamental, overly moralistic, never quite fully valid aspects of the industry/government/education complex that we decorously name the American University. Accommodated in ever more brightly colored, if...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...1967, Lewis Family Papers, folder 139; Ray Reeve, memo to J.D. Lewis, July 7, 1967, Lewis Family Papers, folder 139. Despite Helms's backhanded reference, Pepsi's sponsorship offered Teenage Frolics a national brand...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Knowles, Anne Kelly. "Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities." Southern Spaces, October 31, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/has-historical-gis-arrived-review-toward-spatial-humanities. Nesbit, Scott, Andrew J. Torget, and Robert K. Nelson. "A Conversation...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...family should be featured. The project held out hope for other reconciliations in fraught familial relationships that went back decades. It also seemed likely to reveal strongly held prejudices, as...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
..."Changing the climate, increasingly not only the average temperature of the planet but also the acidity and level of the oceans, and destroying the food chain are actions that cannot...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...accounts of bondage, would hardly be expected to claim to be southerners and might understandably have identified themselves, once free, as radically "Different-From" the region where they had been denied...