Excerpt from Saints at the River
...darkness and as she rises her head scrapes against a rock ceiling and all is black and silent and she tells herself don't breathe but the need grows inside her...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...Mississippi. He was investigating the murder of a Negro man by a white storekeeper which had taken place many months before. Many people talked to Medgar that night, in dark...
Substantiation
...knows he's coming since he whistles like a train on the way out of town. * They say it was darker than a thousand midnights in the cabin, that they...
Editorial Style Guide
...sections or pages of websites in quotation marks. Google Maps "Google Maps Help Center" Punctuation: Do not italicize email addresses or URLs. To see the new website, visit http://www.southernspaces.org. Hyphens:...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...but the small-town, rural South was the site and subject of their most recognized work. The vivid immediacy of their photographs—and their ubiquity in magazines, books, and exhibits—has made it...
How I Shed My Skin
...as a white-wooled lamb, God's adversary as a prince of . . . darkness, salvation as a cleansing that leads to shining whiteness. God, Christ, and all the angels wore...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...tourism sites can be fraught with triumphalism that fails to acknowledge either the full weight of the past or the far-from-fulfilled demands of the present.3Owen J. Dwyer and Derek H....
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...locating their poems in specific historical and social sites. There is, I argue, a red thread of American poetry that has consistently and productively represented race as a spatial rather...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
What happens when we put Black Studies in conversation with the history of cartography? Katherine McKittrick, one of the key thinkers in Black Geographies, answers this question in a foundational...