Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...photography to probe the conflicting meanings and memories of home. Her family has deep roots in the region and was once part of the white plantation-owning class. Her grandfather, Joseph...
The Civil Rights Archive
Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...jays, when the grand jury broke and let the suspect go. The facts are simple, my grandfather said, the D.A. said we couldn't make a case, so the words they...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act/. Rally to End Gerrymandering, Washington, DC, March 25, 2019. Photograph by Flickr user League of Women Voters. Copyright © 2019. The case, Merrill v. Milligan, will adversely shape voting...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...Freeman knows Oak Ridge from extensive ethnographic and archival research, and from personal experience. She was born there. Her grandparents lived there, and her grandfather was a soldier who trucked...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
Submission deadline: March 17, 2016. Submission requirements: 300–500 word proposal. Questions: Contact managing editor Meredith Doster at seditor@emory.edu. The interdisciplinary online journal Southern Spaces invites researchers, writers, teachers, artists, documentary...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Museum (March 15, 2019–September 1, 2019) examines how queer people "carved out spaces for themselves in southern Florida" across the twentieth century. For this interview, I asked Capó about Welcome...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...