Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...Sprinkle Creek with NCDOT geologist, Rick Lockamy, to conduct core rock sampling, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 2994. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist, Rick Lochamy, studying maps in preparation for...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007); Beryl Satter, Family Matters: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2009). On the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...world, to work for the treasure in heaven. So I sat waiting for Mama in the car, reading the Bible, opening the book of Revelations, longing for the place after...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...his admission of "sin" and his willingness to do penance through "reparative" therapy (138–139). In his provocative and deeply personal book, Then Sings My Soul, Douglas Harrison wants to show...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Photograph by James Robert Chambless. Courtesy of the Sacred Harp Museum. The Sacred Harp, a shape-note tunebook first published in 1844, has long been the center of a network of...
Good-Bye to All That?
...I would have gleaned from reading a dozen books on the subject. Location of Transylvania County in North Carolina (top) and location of the Pisgah Forest Precinct in Transylvania County,...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....