The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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Southern Spaces Recommends
...recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long. I've also been listening to some music that's helping me adapt to this new world we're in: "World of Strange Design"...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...the natural world merged into one. How do you represent the horrific legacy of slavery without the bodies of the enslaved? Historically, abolitionist writers and editors built their political critiques...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...as they do to rural isolation, commercial underdevelopment, African, British, and Celtic survivals in the New World, and the Lost Cause and other self-conscious efforts to create and shape historical...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of Archives and History. Dupont also describes an ethos of white supremacy that extended beyond church organizations and publications. Anti-civil rights crusaders utilized churchly pronouncements as scaffolding for their "worldly"...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...she talks about the opportune slipperiness of these photographs in the sense that they simultaneously inhabit the worlds of art, science, and social action. Was this or is this your...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the rigs above, as well: three white lines show trends in overall oil production, skyrocketing worldwide while staying relatively flat in the US. Displays like these—some incorporating Misrach's photography from...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...