Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Mississippi Delta
...Florida panther. Prevalent trees included sweetgum, hackberry, cottonwood, persimmon, and river cane, the latter growing in dense patches. Picking cotton in some of the poorer land, Mississippi Delta, near Clarksdale,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...the High Point Museum will exhibit selections of Magee's work following the Greensboro exhibition, December 5, 2014–February 21, 2015. Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Rust's partner Marty replies, "Stop saying shit like that, it's unprofessional."9Cary Joji Fukunaga, "The Long Bright Dark," True Detective (HBO, January 12, 2014), Episode 1. In the eight episodes of...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...a Slave. While McQueen didn't pick up the same trophy at the Golden Globes a few weeks later, he arguably took home that night's biggest prize when 12 Years a...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...Chippewa Square, Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 2014. Photograph by Flickr user BEV Norton. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, Detail of General Oglethorpe Statue, Savannah, Georgia, February 12, 2010. Photograph...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...compose the broader section of the nation known as the South, as this study of South Carolina’s coastal parishes illustrates. Each one—from the Virginia Tidewater and the Florida Keys to...