LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...and attendees drew inspiration from the museum and its standing exhibits: This event really opened our eyes to the variations of expression and experience we can have at each Art...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
DOIs and Altmetrics
Screenshot of Altmetric homepage, June 7, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Southern Spaces announces the adoption of several features that support our mission of publishing open access and public-facing scholarship....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...city square, the two-thousand square foot brick sanctuary dates from the late nineteenth century. The wooden pews remain. The pastor’s study has become an office and a small annex off...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...