Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
Review Although scholars of the African diaspora have long acknowledged the persistence of African cultural forms within the musical, material, and linguistic cultures of African Americans in the United States,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...
Brushes with War
...General Sherman's approval, General George Stoneman's mounted troops hoped to grab headlines by pressing south to liberate Andersonville; instead, most were captured and marched to the infamous prison. In the...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...York and Atlanta, most others ("The Displaced Person," "Greenleaf," and "The Enduring Chill") describe " atypical life" on working farms like Andalusia. Writing Rural Georgia O'Connor makes rural Georgia the...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...eliminated sex discrimination because of the fact that in the subordinate position of women, we cut across all racial, class, social, economic lines and . . . so vast a...
Submission Guidelines
...Videos use visual—as opposed to textual or rhetorical—techniques to advance a critical argument. The three types of videos we generally publish are Ethnographic: visual scholarship that is concerned with the...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...building served as a general medical-surgical hospital until it was closed in 1979. It contained operating rooms, wards for medical and surgical cases, a clinical laboratory, an x-ray department, an...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...levels of the local public schools. It also appears that we have been witnessing a long-term structural transformation of local economies in both rural and urban regions of the South,...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...the forefront of scholarship on the historical, political, and social dimensions of Cherokee Removal. Similarly, the "Social Memory and Memorialization" educational resource collects innovative Southern Spaces scholarship on such topics...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
...The other church, Mt. Vernon Baptist Church, has occupied its current space since 1955, having already moved several times due to development in the area. Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, Falcons...