Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of Black exclusion from social, political and cultural belonging; our abjection from the realm of the human."1Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...Reed. Photograph courtesy of Verso Books. Passing as white occupies a full chapter as Reed explores the making of racial identities. During his teenage years in New Orleans, passant blanc...
Mississippi Delta
...Florida panther. Prevalent trees included sweetgum, hackberry, cottonwood, persimmon, and river cane, the latter growing in dense patches. Picking cotton in some of the poorer land, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale,...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Off-Season
...the city sprawled out like scattered masonry and split rails, Raleigh, smoked factory winds and speak easy halls. A white chicken fell off a Tyson rig, just a bit ahead...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
Video and Essay One of the barrier islands along the Georgia coast of the Atlantic Ocean, St. Catherines has an extraordinary ecological and settlement history. First inhabited more than four...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Earl Dotter, Environmental activist volunteers, Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2005. From Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment. Southern Spaces editors will work with authors, photographers, artists, and videographers in...
Whiskey and Geography
...needed only equipment and grain to get started. Those who had no prior knowledge worked with neighbors and learned by doing.4Joseph Earl Dabney, Mountain Spirits, Vol. 1 (Asheville, NC: Bright...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
...at Chapel Hill for digitizing the 1920s market bulletins from Raleigh, North Carolina, which appear in the video. This presentation, given at Woodruff Library at Emory University, April 24, 2012,...