The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...draw a boundary between North and South Carolina. His instructions were to draw a line which began thirty miles south of the Cape Fear River and extended northwest to thirty-five...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...ummah landscape have facilitated some encounters and interactions between the two groups: (1) the close proximity between Atlanta's major immigrant mosque and the city's foremost African American mosques and neighborhoods...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
The Black Belt
...the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3a53178/ Beyond its multi-county Alabama designation, the Black Belt as a landscape of primarily cotton agriculture and majority African American population covered...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...delightful and illuminating shock she had of seeing a stretch of flat Illinois landscape through the window of an airplane and realizing how different it was from a map of...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...to the gestalt of this literature within the minds of its readers. To get a sense of this perceived landscape, I have mapped the observations detailed in this work and laid them...
Sonic Zora in Florida
Songs Cover the Landscape Yet another program housed under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the Federal Writers Project (FWP), invited Zora Neale Hurston in 1938 to join the editorial staff...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...migration into the region. Most current commentaries are on Hispanics, an important part of the Appalachian social and economic landscape to be sure, but Hispanics now run a distant second...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
Big City Bird’s Eye View. Artistic rendering by Dawud Anyabwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Antonio Valor. Character drawing by Dawud Anybwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and...