Old capitol building, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2010
Place, Time, and Memory
...and later sculptures About William Christenberry Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on November 5, 1936, William Christenberry was a painter, photographer, and sculptor whose work drew upon the subject matter of...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...statute of Louis Armstrong clutching a trumpet in one fist and a sweat-soaked handkerchief in the other. There’s even a bronze likeness of Buddy Bolden in triplicate, whose cornet playing...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...liked to be in that number," explains longshoreman John McSwain, who came to New Orleans from rural Alabama in 1959 at the age of nineteen to work on the river....
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Mobile, Alabama, on August 21, 2015, by amplifying his hardline position on immigration: build a "Chinese wall" on the Mexican border, deport all immigrants without legal status, and deny citizenship...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...having populations of 100,000 or more. There were fourteen: Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, and Montgomery in Alabama; Little Rock in Arkansas; Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport in Louisiana; Jackson...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...musicians. The lead singer describes his rural Mississippi background in connection to musicians such as Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, who as he describes, grew up working “mighty hard, and...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official's Reconnaissance Trip to the US South." Southern Spaces, March 18, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south. Herring, Christie. Bodies and Souls. Southern Spaces, November 30, 2009....