"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...drew neighborhood boundaries dramatically; runaways acknowledged these boundaries furtively, by avoiding contact with slaves outside their neighborhood whenever possible. As a terrain of both solidarity and struggle, neighborhoods proved rough...
History: The Parlor
...Nannie would have had frequent contact with their Benson and Snoddy relatives living in the area, and they probably pieced quilts, embroidered, crocheted, or knitted while visiting family and friends....
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the most productive uses of racially-inflected class consciousness and the unanswerable hysterias of insulted humanity. Paulo Da-Luz-Moreira has revealed the pained vitality of a contact zone that I think of...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Send your proposals via email to ecds@emory.edu by 5:00 p.m. on January 17, 2014. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any questions....
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...and illness make on her husband Larry’s body and the flaws in the contact prints made from wet-plate collodion negatives, a nineteenth-century processing method. This doubled subject matter highlights the...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...materials, botanical texts, medical texts, engravings, and drawings. Allewaert's ultimate purpose is to theorize the complex, shifting, and fluid personhood born of slavery, colonialism, and post-colonial contact in the American...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...authors of all academic ranks, including those outside the academy. We encourage interested authors to contact us with any questions about our new licensing options, and we look forward to...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...and Ellen Spears by January 31, 2011. Please contact us with ideas, questions, or concerns. We are glad to discuss proposed topics and multimedia possibilities before proposals are formally submitted....
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...the negative I need for the platinum contact prints. The platinum print expands tonality, revealing a truthful sense of place. I work alone and slowly. The advantage in going slower...