Mississippi Delta
...as formative as any factor in shaping the life and culture of the Delta. Native Americans lived on the land that became known as the Delta from around 1000 B.C....
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...shows share little else. Where True Blood's title sequence—like its plotting and characterization—is hypersaturated, paced for blooming or exploding rot, True Detective's opener features a world in chemical sterilization. Rather...
Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]
...in triple rows of diagonal lines. These lines were not marked beforehand but quilted intuitively, as the distances among the triplets vary noticeably. This may be the result of a...
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....
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...road in near Marks in Quitman County. The first, taken in early spring, shows an unpaved road heading out from the foreground and gently bending to the left in background....
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...how the objects featured in Water Graves's chapters (objects of literature, music, film, visual arts, poetry, and photography) repair the effects of unritual. Windward Coast by Radcliffe Bailey, New York,...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...home, Walnut, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Like all newcomers, I was often greeted by, "You ain't from around here?" And, people were right to ask, to question...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...for use around the campfire, a testament to their love of the music considering the volume’s size and weight. A number of composers less directly involved in the book’s production...
Sea Changes in Personhood
Review While taking its cues from apparently minor literary events and artifacts, Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics is a major intervention in literary criticism, political...
The Black Belt
The Black Belt Traditional Counties of the Alabama Black Belt. In the 1820s and 30s, the Black Belt identified a strip of rich, dark, cotton-growing dirt drawing immigrants primarily from...