Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury, and Beth Kamunge (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 15–25. Recognizing that a statement of solidarity must live up to its words, we pledge the following: To...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...This collage features a detail from the painting "Blue Suit, Faceless Man" by Sandy Solomon. Additional image credits available here. My mother would leave each morning to visit Mr. S....
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...trash, glowing debris, garbage that lights up—like the tossed-away sled at the end of Citizen Kane or the illuminated basketball hoops that David Hammons makes out of Harlem debris or...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Enchanting the Desert: Visualizing the Production of Space at the Grand Canyon
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off." "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...primarily through new home construction during the post war period Part 4: Dr. Wiese refers to postwar growth on Atlanta’s west side to illustrate how self-contained Black neighborhoods emerged Part 5: Dr....
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...ways. The proposition is perhaps self-evident. However, its force and its fallout, not always adequately appreciated, may be illustrated simply. "Hindustanmein rehna hai, to humse milkar rehna hoga / Hindustan...
Seneca Quarry
...which was then countersigned by the paymaster, Arch. Lee, as they were illiterate. It was illegal to educate slaves, so some (or even many) of these people may have been...