Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...a reflex of nausea rather than hunger, an indigestion created by our consumption of sugar made possible by our exploitation of fellow humans. This luxury turned into necessity changed the...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...changes. The frequent change of key and time . . ."). We can hear her working this blues aesthetic out in songs like "Mule on the Mount," that lining rhythm...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Piedmont South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Glenn C. Altschuler, All Shook Up: How Rock 'n' Roll Changed America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004); John W....
Sapelo Island Flyover
...Tidal ranges on the Georgia coast are already greater than those of most barrier island systems, typically varying from 2.5–3 meters (8.2–9.8 feet). Any addition to this already-voluminous water exchange...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...essays, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart" and "Rebellion": What has been done in my name that I would like to challenge and/or change? Because this lecture series is the first act...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal's...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...https://southernspaces.org/2021/undoing-voting-rights-act/. Justice Alito's Remarks from the Bench about how racial bloc-voting "may be due to ideology." Merill v. Mulligan oral argument. Audio courtesy of the Supreme Court of the United...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...up, and who, in the process, became somebody he never dreamed of being. The story is about the creation of a group of advocates in a part of the United...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...systemic racism and economic inequality in the United States. Intended to reach a broad audience through television airings, distribution to high schools and colleges, and presentations by grassroots organizations and...