I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...that I cannot understand — rise in its indifferent passion. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 8-9. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...at Emory University. She received her PhD from Boston University and is the author of Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2008) and editor of Skin Deep,...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...J. Buccafusco, and Zachary C. Burns, "What's a Name Worth?: Experimental Tests of the Value of Attribution in Intellectual Property," Boston University Law Review 93 (2013): 101–147, http://scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1732&context=fac_schol. Attribution through...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...enslaved at age seven, and deported to Boston at age eight. The author reads Wheatley's life as a series of "removes" (115) that translate into her poetry as a passage...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Archives of Florida. Image is in public domain. Bottom, "Land of a Thousand Charms," Florida, 1953. Postcard published by the Tichnor Brothers. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library. I'm thinking...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
Review frozen, photograph inside Kara Walker's A Subtlety, Brooklyn, New York, June 6, 2014. Photograph by Eric Konon. Courtesy of Eric Konon. Oh ye who at your ease Sip the...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...of Cleo Jericho Judson, whose antics to transplant her southern family into the folds of Boston's Black elite might result in her own undoing. Steve Bransford, videographer: I've always loved...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Exodus: The New Catholics in Boston's Old Ethnic Neighborhoods," Religion and American Culture 17.2 (2007): 204. Jackson argues that religion sometimes become a lowest common denominator amongst co-ethnics. Religious institutions...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
Introduction: Series Editor's Note Martin Padgett's A Night at the Sweet Gum Head explores a cast of historical actors who shaped modern LGBTQ+ politics and culture in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia....