A Mess of Poke
...Adams, Sauteeing poke in bacon grease, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. Allison O. Adams, Poke scrambled with eggs, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. After the last boiling, I noted that the greens were beginning...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...Callaloo Conference, our seventh annual gathering, which focuses on "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," a subject that seldom, if ever, receives significant headliner attention at academic conferences today. For...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces is proud to launch a fresh design for our journal today, stage one in a two-stage rollout of our newly redeveloped publishing platform. The new design emphasizes visual...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...of these people who were interviewed in the film would want copies of it. I didn't think they would use it on their website as a way to promote their...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...the 1960s and 1970s, activists promoted a related golden-age vision of egalitarian pastoralism in pre-industrial Appalachia, which they contrasted with the ugliness of strip mining, black lung disease, and other...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...monumental impact on the voting rights of African Americans and on the nation's faith in its democratic promise. Since 1965 Section 5 has required the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Carver (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011). African American hikers at Niagara Falls, ca. 1905. Photograph by Hamilton Sutton Smith. Courtesy of the Museum of African American History, Boston, Massachusetts....
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...as Hearing the Call attests, she possesses multi-generational knowledge about community genealogies predating Creek Removal from ancestral homelands in Alabama and Georgia in 1836 as well as a command of specific family...