I-26, Corridor of Change
...seek the perfect photograph, the longer I lived in Madison County, the more I became interested in recording the process of events, and in documenting social and environmental change. When...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...opened to the public in April 1905. The Gibbes houses a collection of ten thousand works, principally American portraits, landscapes, still-lives, and miniature portraits with a Charleston or southern connection....
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...They assert that on the Catholic side of the Haitian religious triangle of forces, the supernatural being who is believed to be most involved in the lives of believers and...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...the solution was obvious: white women were themselves partly to blame. They were leading unhealthy lives, exacerbated by the emotional influence of their reproductive systems. They were also endangered—as black...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...(as well as American) literature.8A list partial and incomplete would include James Agee, Dorothy Allison, Raymond Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harriette Arnow, Doris Betts, Arna Bontemps, Olive Ann Burns, George Washington...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...still live in the closet, and many, the "evidence suggests," are married to women.2Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men are Gay?," The New York Times, December 7, 2013, accessed December...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...have a sort of raw, naïve sound.” In the music magazines, critics often described these aural qualities as the “southern” sound of the music. For people that lived there, however,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...people just trying to live, trying to figure out why working so hard and being held up as the salt of the earth—while being denied all that they need to...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...almost walked into it because it was somewhat camouflaged by all of its neighboring palm trees, which were small. I imagined that's how it had lived so long, because it...