Frank Willis
..."Aaron Canaday," his name alone enough, then a sentence, a song: "Slick was Here-O." Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 ©...
Chattanooga, Tennessee images
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...by José Amador, excerpted from his award-winning book, Medicine and Nation Building in the Americas, 1890–1940, which shifts attention from the US South to an area of US imperial expansion...
Seneca Quarry
1823 Seneca Quarry workmen payroll. 1823 payroll. National Archives & Records Administration, Records Group 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, 1790–1992....
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Tennessee Industrial Renewal Network (TIRN) Scrapbook
Published: 19 May 2011 © 2011 Fran Ansley and Anne Lewis and Southern Spaces...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Charles Egbert Craddock (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941), 127. What made southern local color writing exceptional wasn't its "mind" or any particular historical "burden," but instead its...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...the Sun (New York: Scribner's,1976), Ian Hamilton's Writers in Hollywood: 1915–1951 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1990), Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1974), and Meta...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...the Scottsboro Boys, 1935. Courtesy of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Local speakers acknowledged the racial injustice done to the nine teenagers. With a powerful statement, the...