At Sun Ra's Grave
...hung in a bronze policeman's grip. Dew rises through the halflight, a gauze, departing wings. * One drifts in the neon glow of the church's sign, News wrapped tight around...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...put onto the grave. The body of the deceased is highly regarded until the last minute of its care. When the graveside rites are over the pastor announces when the...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...New York, and several other cities on the East Coast, and recorded ten songs: a total of just twenty-two minutes of music, what Christgau called “their tiny life” in liner...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...to pose an original argument or research-based claim. All Southern Spaces articles undergo peer review. Reviews offer critical evaluations of recently published books, films, digital projects, music, events, and other art or scholarship related...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...explained in his 1993 book The Well-Placed Weed from which our documentary takes its title. Gainey's gardens feature a fascinating give-and-take between the structured and the free-flowing. Looking into Ryan...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and much more. Despite its short 3:45-minute length, this video's content, combined with its brief narrated descriptions, can inspire an hour or more of classroom discussion of natural and human...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...United States (13–14). Plate 3, 1834. Colored illustration by T. A. Conrad. Originally published in T. A. Conrad's New Fresh Water Shells of the United States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Judah Dobson,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...can write an entire book about one small county in one decade. But instead of being a reflection of academics being narrow, it’s really a reflection of the fact that...