I-26, Corridor of Change
...years. But mostly, what I do is all about time and place and memory. So, for the next little bit, I would like to share some of my work from...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Delhi. Then, nearly as suddenly, the cause dropped from view, displaced by a war to extend democratic rights the Scottsboro nine did not enjoy. The nine young men falsely accused...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...A postcard image, likely from the early 1900s, of a racetrack in Maxwellton, St. Louis, Missouri shows clearly the judges' booths, the fencing that kept spectators off the horse track,...
The Place of Appalachia
...challenges activists faced in pursuing racial justice. Second, place matters because Goliaths like capitalism, neoliberalism, and globalization are produced in specific places, where the locally-specific but globally-interconnected matrix of social...
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
...and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot...
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...