And the Prize Goes to...
...digital writing projects. All eligible contest articles were published between January 2014 and Spring 2015 and engaged southern studies themes, expansively defined. Our survey included articles from Southern Spaces, Southern...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...attitudes that survived the Civil War and Reconstruction to terrorize African Americans in the US South deep into the twentieth century. To this day, we hear the echoes of this...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...rural Alabama, these images follow the daily activities of an extended African American family in their segregated, southern town. When they appeared as part of the Life photo essay "The...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Bailey has inserted into the American mind, through the channels of the gallery and the museum, indelible images of African American memory. The signature is immediately recognizable. Memory as Medicine—curated...
Mardi Gras Indian, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...Black and White Women of the Old South: The Peculiar Sisterhood in American Literature (1985), and numerous essays, and coeditor of The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...The Attack on the Voting Rights Act." Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. Wilkerson, Jessica. "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian History." Southern Spaces, March 12, 2019....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...door at 355 Broadway. The new facility accommodated seven-hundred fifty to eight hundred patrons and quickly became the hub of African American entertainment in Macon. As the premiere African American...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...any other public leaders. Brian Howard, "Religion in Africa: Tolerance and Trust in Leaders are High, but Many Would Allow Regulation of Religious Speech," Afrobarometer Dispatch no. 339 (2020), https://afrobarometer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Policy%20papers/ab_r7_dispatchno339_pap12_religion_in_africa.pdf....