Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...has chosen to give this figure an African American face and not portray him as a featureless profile. The tableau reminds viewers that capital punishment in America imposes unequal racial judgment...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...the deterioration of the Refuge's ecosystem? What were some of these changes and the causes? Dimmitt: Almost all the causes are saltwater intrusion. And second, for ten or twenty years, is...
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...studies; critical regional studies; African American, Indigenous, and American studies; women's and gender studies; LGBTQ studies, public health; and social justice. A digital publication, Southern Spaces provides an open access...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...not only the electoral potential in the Sunbelt but also the political dynamite in the social and cultural conflicts of the 1960s. Phillips famously confided to a journalist that understanding...
Bodies and Souls
...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...site also foregrounds rich multimedia, deepening our journal's commitment to multimedia publishing. All articles, photo essays, and short videos feature a full-screen cover photo. Our migration to Vimeo and Soundcloud—social...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...[ca 1850] Rosa's Log Cabin Quilt [ ca. 1880] Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905] Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915] Narcissa Benson Narcissa Benson (1828-1881) was the...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
...projects is an anthology on new technology, a book manuscript on racial epistemologies in the electronic age, and the launching of an internet journal through the Institute for Multimedia Literacy....
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...poorer farmers were content to raise crops each year and clear enough to do it all over again, and they were cautious in buying into the capital-intensive treadmill. While prosperous...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...twentieth- and early twenty-first-century version of "Negro removal."3"Negro removal" was a phrase used to describe the disproportionate displacement of black people from neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal. "Urban renewal," writes...