In Memory Hill Cemetery
...have a Polaroid Land Camera 340, old as me purchased in the early seventies, inherited from great uncle Phineas. It works but every photograph is a ritual — no auto...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
Call for Submissions Series title: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces Series editor: Eric Solomon, PhD Submission deadline: July 30, 2018 New deadline: August 30, 2018 Submission requirements: 350–500 word proposals OR...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...Southern Spaces frequently publishes ethnographic, documentary, and lyric videos. Presentations include media associated with public scholarly presentations as well as audio or visual recordings of presenters. Such presentations include lectures,...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
Since 2005, a group of activists have annually reenacted the lynching of Roger and Dorothy Malcom and George and Mae Murray Dorsey, murdered on Moore’s Ford Bridge in Monroe, Georgia, on...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the magazine's weekly and monthly best sellers lists for August and September. Daniels' book sold particularly well in the South, and by early 1939, Frank Porter Graham, president of the...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Bourbon Street's relatively high elevation and proximity to the river, the "front of town," made it much more economically and environmentally sound than the flood-prone, low-lying swampy areas of the...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...enclave of black life and culture. The "Death" referred to in the book's title is, thankfully, not that of go-go itself, but that of the isolated, culturally independent, economically deprived,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...intellectually exciting again. If Miller is right, then both popular and scholarly conceptions of "Southernness" since at least the second decade of the twentieth century owe as much to minstrelsy...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...living — eating locally and sustainably — and to connect with one another in an urban world. Books have been written. Documentary films have been made. I was interviewed for...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...of Microsoft Word documents to SouthernQuarterly@gmail.com are preferred over postal delivery. About the Journal: The Southern Quarterly is an internationally-known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts...