Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official's Reconnaissance Trip to the US South." Southern Spaces, March 18, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south. Herring, Christie. Bodies and Souls. Southern Spaces, November 30, 2009....
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...the Presbyterian Church in South Carolina, 2 vols. (Columbia, SC: Duffie and Chapman, 1870–73), 1:418–19. Map of South Carolina Waxhaws region, 2012. Map shows location of Waxhaw Presbyterian Church in...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
Essay Map showing Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2012. In the late 1970s, I spent a year on the West Coast, and it was as close as I ever got to counterculture....
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Maggio, Why there is Sacred Harp singing in Cork, March 13, 2011. Maggio, a singer from Massachusetts who helped introduce Sacred Harp singing to France, represented the hybrid academic and...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...'Cabins in the Laurel.'" Appalachian Journal 12.3 (Spring 1985): 227. Williams makes a similar observation: images that "placed [Appalachia] squarely in the American mainstream" historically have been marginalized to make...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of African Americans in the US South. Much like West Africans who were grappling with the inheritances of colonialism, African Americans lived daily with the reality of being both African...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
Review The intricate mapping of Louisiana below Interstate 10 in HBO's 2014 series True Detective generates more than just the obvious voyeurism of extreme poverty that marks so many shows...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
..."Those girls kept their union books by their machines." During my stay, I had a lot of errands for Mama, so I went to Wal-Mart every day, since anything you...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Birmingham, Alabama, showing racial zoning, May 1933. Map by Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Home Owners' Loan Corporation. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Map is in public...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shooting pictures of southern rural poverty, and in 1970, the want remains. This is not a very promising place to make a life, no matter what the woman is carrying...