Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...and Black. Queer. Southern. Women.—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018). Sharon Bridgforth is a writer and activist, and a recipient of the Doris Duke Performing...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Cause ideology to the formation of southern literature (à la the "Southern Renaissance"), Hardwig reminds readers that much local color literature takes place far away from the plantation, in places...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...disparate strands of evidence in Spanish, English, French, and indigenous language sources into a larger tapestry characterized by the irony of communication, she leaves a number of loose ends. Mentioning...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...southern half of Missouri, northern third of Arkansas, and a small fraction of northeastern Oklahoma, which geographers generally delimit by rivers: the Missouri on the north, the Mississippi on the...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
In November of 2011 I wrote for Southern Spaces on the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, a key marker and catalyst of the growing presence of Sacred Harp singing in...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...with a higher prevalence in southern states, yet his overarching narrative is another link in the chain of pathologizing southern space via flawed statistical aggregation. If we tolerate the received...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...to carry the party's extensive provisions (4). The eight slaves speak in exaggerated black southern dialect, and represent the racial burden of southern whites, which the exploring party escapes upon...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...