Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...notions we imagined as utopia gave way instead to today's start-up mentality, the gig economy, and ballooning inequality. Many people whose opinions I value want the story of Athens to...
Encountering COVID
...to have more value than it has today. I think in seven years, when I'm sixty-seven, I'm going to be a very popular lady at the ten-year anniversary. Q: As...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...today's Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—were central to early American knowledge production. At first glance the image appears to be a familiar allegory of Europe's conquest of the Americas. It...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...of approaches for joining geo-spatial analysis and humanistic inquiry. The media-rich lectures published here by Southern Spaces offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, soundscapes, cities, spheres of cultural influence, and...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...enroll the two girls. Police were present but did nothing to protect the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and his family, who barely managed to escape without serious injury. Nashville's power structure—its...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...rap record labels, Cash Money and No Limit, and their artist mega-stars––Mystikal, Juvenile, Lil Wayne, and others––would ultimately develop their own unique sounds born out of this fascinating soundscape and...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...the end of conservatism itself. The movement has spawned think tanks, media outlets and other institutions that have become permanent fixtures on the political landscape. This election won't change any...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...ordinary objects that remain from past generations, must be examined in "new and imaginative ways" to achieve "a different appreciation for what life is today, and was in the past."...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...