A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...with the distinctive New Orleans hiphop sound. Back at home, neighborhoods and local social aid and pleasure clubs hosted block parties and second lines featuring the dynamic sounds and dances...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
How I Shed My Skin
...Algonquin Books. The transformations from sixth to seventh grade, from lackadaisical Mr. Vaughn's class to the precise Mrs. Ferguson, from foe to friend of black classmates, helped expose southern white...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Their torsos curved, their hair curled, and their lips smiled. They wore forties and fifties dresses and ribbons in their hair, and they bopped and shook when they performed like...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...the lines between our two positions as researchers, a process that is apparent in our writing about this experience, a shift from the first-person singular to the first-person dual, from...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...mist her hair with her "Big Sexy Hair" spray, and drive us five minutes to school before heading to the office and further patients to visit and administrative duties to...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the appliquéd motifs and added further rows to echo the contours of the larger pieces. The background is quilted in "hanging diamonds," that is, rows of horizontal lines crossed with...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...from Passages North at Northern Michigan University. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry 2010, Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and Best New Poets 2005 and...
Remnants of Flannery
...Rare Books Library, "Flannery should be seen as whole as could be made possible."20Richard Fausset, "Emory Receives Archive of Work by O’Connor," The New York Times, October 7, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/books/university-acquires-flannery-oconnors-papers-and-effects.html?_r=0....
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
Janet Powell, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005. Located north of Oak Ridge and about thirty miles northwest of Knoxville, Buffalo Mountain Windfarm was built in the 2000s as...