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
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...Frequency as a Measure of Research Activity and Performance," in Essays of an Information Scientist, ed. Eugene Garfield (Philadelphia: ISI Press, 1977), 406–408. The publishers of the Public Library of...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Sublime: Ecology and Resistance in the American Plantation Zone," is an expanded version of a piece Allewaert published in PMLA.2Monique Allewaert, "Swamp Sublime: Ecologies of Resistance in the American Plantation...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...the poor, or people of color. I wanted to recover people's voices—as well as their moments of leisure and community-building—whenever possible. While telling Miami's queer past through objects often proved...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...part of this womb-machine that contains and shapes us in our modernity.22For Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant, the hold of the slaveship, the slave plantation and its machinery constitute...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...in Miami that preserve and theologize a complex lifesystem. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, a central figure in the mural who guards over the emigrants' journeys, serves as a polyreligious...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...added). What follows is excerpted from Padgett's "Preface" and a glimpse into Bill Smith's participation in the first Atlanta Pride march on June 27, 1971. This is one of the...