Gold Records in Deep Space
...very substance and availability of archival material, and how this material shapes the cinematic writing of history. Focusing so intently on archival fragments, actual and simulated, Wenders fetishizes traces that...
Mapping Souths
..."nature" being "gone for good." (But it is almost impossible to conquer nature.) Mapping the South is always a situated venture and always implicitly narrative: a way of mobilizing space...
Naming Each Place
...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...students (approximately 2/3 of all US public school students) in 2008. Almost all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...city's premier barber, had substantial business earnings and real estate, qualifying by any measure for upper income status. The institutional development of Black Atlanta was as phenomenal as its business...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...in her bag. It is also, after Walker Evans, not a very promising place to try to make an original photograph. The color—the lime green dress—is the key. The dress...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Ellen Griffith Spears, and Kate Orff. "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction." Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction. Hill, Sarah. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838....
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...into the landscape of O'Connor's stories. The place is eerily quiet except for the occasional sounds from the auto sales lot p.a. system nearby on Highway 441. Once inside the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...the beach as a commercial asset, exploitation of natural resources and environmental engineering of coastal zones and bodies of water for aesthetic and recreational purposes, and the transfer of public...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Southern Autographics, incorporates hand-written drawings and text with photographic imagery to create narratives of historical, environmental, and personal significance. Many of his pieces are photographic collages that juxtapose the South's...