Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...sculpture was placed on a high pedestal. This challenge and response was a minor skirmish in the long-running and largely one sided contest between historical narratives chronicled in Denmark Vesey's...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the "Caribbean Side of the South," he aimed "to rupture the artificial boundaries of region and nation to reach out to the Caribbean" ("Calypso Magnolia," 60). Why must the US...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...this particular artwork flies at all. Critique or criticism is ultimately of no lesser importance. For those who are interested, I direct you to the Goldsmiths, University of London website...
And the Prize Goes to...
...Cultures, MELUS, the Bitter Southerner, American Quarterly, and American Literature, among others. Screenshot of Delerme's article on the Southern Spaces website. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. The class divided into teams...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...touchstones in the narratives of many New Orleans hip-hop and bounce artists, and these continuities of time and space are told here through the artists' own words. The site goes...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...witnessed a national investment in an imagined South that quickly turned into a cultural obsession. In the wake of a catastrophic civil war, this supposedly "real South" became a site...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
Interview Photographer unknown, Tuskegee Airmen gathered at a U.S. base after a mission in the Mediterranean theater, February 1944. Courtesy of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. Part...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...Courtesy of Lewis Watts. The Katrina photography in New Orleans Suite is clear-eyed and nuanced: a flooded band room sitting empty, its brass instruments ruined; New Orleans police officers in...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...a runaway slave, called "The Journey to Freedom." Taken as a whole, the exhibition succeeds in introducing important new themes in Civil War scholarship to the public. Perhaps nowhere has...