Love and Death in Mississippi
...long as I can recall, she has woven in and out of the lives of others, helping them heal in the comfort of their homes or easing their suffering as...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...challenges—from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds....
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...23, 2018, https://southernspaces.org/2017/mapping-big-minutes-visualizing-sacred-harps-geographic-coalescence-and-expansion-1995-2014. The Mt. Lebanon Singing also serves as this Independent Baptist church's homecoming and as a reunion for the Ballinger family, a number of whose members are active...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...with the history of the long civil rights movement, particularly in the late 1960s to early 1980s.12On the long civil rights movement, see Jacqueline Dowd Hall, "The Long Civil Rights...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
Introduction I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...regions do Smilingly Revolt': The Literature of Place and Region," Critical Inquiry 22 (Spring 1996): 486-505. Both Longstreet and Hooper participated in national platforms. As a young man, Longstreet studied...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...further when the Confederates encountered Terry's Mill Pond. The mill pond, which no longer exists, was at least a half-mile long, almost equally as wide, and reached depths of ten...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...done? In comparison, the cockroach might have had it easy. Questions abound. Numerous tribes no longer have any native language speakers. Does this mean the tribe no longer has an...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...the Mississippi Delta and an abundance of hardwood forests and natural resources, along with a tradition of entrepreneurialism and a history of labor-intensive human productivity, supplied the means to drive...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...September 26, 2006. Bottom right, 1618 Forstall Street, Lower Ninth Ward, September 26, 2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Photographs by Ian J. Cohn. © Ian J. Cohn. By early 2006 access to the...