The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...contributed to the content/ of this online presentation of the Prop Master exhibit. Gibbes Executive Director and Chief Curator Angela Mack conceived of the idea to contact Susan and Juan...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...close. Increasingly, online sales and the growth of cattle factory farms are rendering live auctions irrelevant. While I am not from Searcy County, my connections to the place stretch back...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...12, no. 4 (2006): 55–73; Ali Colleen Neff, Let the World Listen Right: The Mississippi Delta Hip-Hop Story (Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2009); Roni Sarig, Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland,...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
Southern Spaces (https://southernspaces.org/), a peer-reviewed online academic journal, invites proposals for essays, photo essays, original short documentaries, and multimedia projects about the natural and built environments of the U.S. South...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...When those jobs disappeared, no other industry filled the gap and more people entered the low-wage service economy, surviving with little in the way of workplace benefits or economic security....
Sapelo Island Flyover
...Life Traces of the Georgia Coast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Steve Bransford is an educational analyst for video with University Technology Services at Emory. He launched his own production...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the African American and low-income white neighborhoods of West Anniston. Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 76. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. During World War II, the Chemical Warfare Service set up...