Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...putting together a new record (LP) collection and am listening to "Bob Dylan: Travelin' Thru," which is vol. 15 of the Bootleg Series, with Dylan and Johnny Cash. Hard to...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...editor of eight others. His previous book Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels won a 2012 American Book Award and Jelly Roll: A Blues was a finalist for the...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...economy toward production for the capitalist marketplace from the very beginning. The analytical and quantitative consciousness of Euro-Americans emphasized efficient management and increasing control over nature from the establishment of...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...partner David Jackson, John Hersey, Carson McCullers, Françoise Sagan: this is just a brief list of artists (in addition to its most famous residents Hemingway and Williams) who lived in...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...in Gamble Valley, adjacent to the city dump and two miles from the nearest white housing (111). Journalist Joan Wallace described Gamble Valley as "the most deliberately isolated black community...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...back to it repeatedly."18Magee and Morrisey. Lift every voice and sing Till earth and heaven ring Ring with the harmonies of Liberty; Let our rejoicing rise High as the listening...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Earl compared the work to his favorite performances, noting that he was just as happy listening to his sister Débria (now deceased), an opera singer performing Carmen, as playing the...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 103-130. In 2011 alone dozens of new Civil War histories appeared and to provide an exhaustive list here would not be possible. The...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...garden as well as an outdoor pleasure park named for the Polish nationalist, Louis Kossuth. There were ornamental French gardens of Euclidean beauty, and English gardens that imitated nature instead...