Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...I do appreciate the cemetery for its wider purpose, I cannot help but recognize that the place owes its existence to a slave plantation founded in 1802 by George Washington...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...questions—what and where is the Great (circum)Caribbean?—and, more importantly, does it matter? "Hyphenating Waters": Calypso Magnolia and the circumCaribbean Lowe approaches these questions through a diligent analysis of books spanning...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of appalling injustice that has lasted to the present day." Securing a conviction rather than justice consumed the local police, which quickly identified young Gary Tyler as their suspect. Within...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...truck—like train engines and turbines in industrial images—appear monumental. He uses the same effect to photograph a tricycle in Untitled (Memphis), 1970, the image that appears on the front cover...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...practical guidance in locating and applying openly available resources."2"How to Use Open Educational Resources," Open Washington, last modified March 3, 2016, http://www.openwa.org/module-1/. The website features OER collections that include videos,...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...spaces are commodified, exploited, and profaned. Closely appended to Loichot's unritual are the notions of "undead" and "unrest"; the liminal zone of (non)being they demarcate emphasizes the unritual's alienating, unsettling,...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...the stereotypical impoverished, rural isolation often associated with southern “folk” or “Appalachian” music, but the rapid growth and booming economy of a culture on the move. Much of that movement...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...analysis—people—proposing that a deeper appreciation of the humans embedded in this landscape could help visualize a way out of our intractable commitment to oil. Ellen Spears, who previously curated Southern...
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...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...judge is to interpret and apply the laws as they are written. . . . That's what we mean when we say that we have the rule of law and...