Brushes with War
...there now that the exhibition has closed. Sadly, the largest art display of the Civil War Sesquicentennial expired without traveling west of the Hudson River or south of the Potomac....
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...our understanding of the importance of African American women—particularly those ensnared in the South's penal system—in the making of New South modernity. It demonstrates the centrality of the carceral regime...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...nineteenth century focuses on what became West Virginia, and is familiar to scholars and many residents of central Appalachia: extension of the railroads into southern West Virginia, corporate acquisition of...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...https://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards. ———. "Geography." January 11, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. ———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey." June 25, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey. ———. "Theories of Time and Space." June 20, 2005. https://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space. Interviews Albergotti,...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...Hall Photography in 2000 and pursues documentary interests in areas of midwifery and southern culture. About the Filmmaker A native of Chester, South Carolina, James L. Hughes III is currently...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature (1985), and numerous essays, and coeditor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...chain, refused to carry the issue: "Some of the images are disturbing—and moving—like quilter Gwen Magee's Southern Heritage/Southern Shame, which depicts five lynching victims hanging in front of a Confederate...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...that faded, which in its time expressed and exerted influence on Civil War memories north and south of the Mason Dixon line and served as a technological, thematic, and commercial...