Birdhouses
...significance. Having lived my life in the US South, growing up in rural South Carolina as a descendent of generations of subsistence farmers on both sides of my family, I...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...healthcare law varies across place. The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...to factor significantly in the rising rate of low-income students. Similarly, a high birth rate among African Americans has contributed to the increased percentages, especially in the Deep South. Persistently...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Ohio; and New Orleans's Ninth Ward—locations to be checked off in early spring before the campaign turned serious. Selma and the Pettus Bridge signify victories by a people in a...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynching for the state (6). Discrimination sign, Dimmitt, Texas, 1949. Photograph by Russell Werner Lee. Courtesy of Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. If mobs...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...the latent potential of the field. Other things the Delta grew then and still does. One-of-a-kind stores, forever "un-chained," with esoteric signs. Autocrats, plutocrats, democrats. Ramblers and gamblers. Day laborers,...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...regulations sign during grave removal at the Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Homemade sign erected over the Little Ivy Church Cemetery during...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...lived her entire life in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Collections of family quilts are not unusual. What gives these special significance is their age, provenance, and the attention Mary Black...