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...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...current debates on indigenous rights. The subject of the UNDRIP is a significant departure from my previous work on Native American literature and theory and it might as well reflect...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...West Indies as crucible of syncretic creation and significant global influence, Island People succeeds tremendously. Wade in the Crosscurrents Together, Lowe and Jelly-Schapiro have written one important work: Calypso Magnolia-Island...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...closer to Little Vietnam. I remember walking during my teen years through the streets of East Lake Meadows with community members, holding signs with slogans against violence and drugs. A...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...more contemporary concerns about human health, and she "crystallized the recognition that humans were fundamentally altering the environment" (83). Just as significant as this rethinking of Silent Spring and pesticide...