Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...and loving and playing in a place gives us a special sort of access to some "truth," whether we can (or should) escape our emotional attachments to (or severed from)...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...Sustaining multimedia digital publishing through regular redesigns requires resources, but helps ensure a place for scholarly discourse in the broader ever-changing media landscape. Southern Spaces is committed to sharing the...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...forlorn landscape, he wondered "What could be done? Where should I begin life anew?" Rather than try to rehabilitate a lost agrarian world, he returned to another familiar pursuit and...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...excerpts document experiences and events that occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, decades of significant social and cultural change nationally. The economic, political, and social landscape of Atlanta transformed dramatically...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...by way of metaphors of landscape and earth science. After our encounter and conversation in Wyoming, I reread one of Snyder's classic essays, "Poetry, Community & Climax," from The Real...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Europeans, migrating from a different disease zone outside the tropics, suffered more than Africans from malaria. The wealthiest white elite, who could afford to escape the sickly summer and fall...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...paintings, photographs, installations, and films, in a pervasive celebration of amateurism and primitivism, and in the crazy free form dancing that erupted wherever bands played. In Athens, child’s play worked...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...There have been a lot of changes in the cityscape since the New Orleans guide was first released. Upriver from the French Quarter the skyline has become mini-Manhattanized, anchored by...