An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Institute of Arts and Letters. Jones is a professor and distinguished scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In 2009, he will be inducted into the Southern Fellowship of Writers....
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...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...differing reactions to the plague and to its stages is amazingly on target. I'm in a book club, and our current reading is Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. It's a...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Melo: The influence is inevitable. My childhood was full of the Russian and Soviet imaginary: that trace is evident, for example, in my work Talc, but also in part of...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...called out whose foot was in the boot. Born in 1837, a famine immigrant from Ireland in 1850, she lost her husband and four children to a yellow fever epidemic...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...including the Cartier Foundation in Paris in 2001 and the Hayward Gallery in London in 2002. In 2004, Eggleston received a Getty Images Lifetime Achievement Award at a ceremony at...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." This series will examine how music and music-making relate to specific geographies—real or imagined—in or related to the US South...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...Mary made this quilt before her marriage in 1889 and suggesting Mary's pride in her identity and family connections. History: Mary's "Save All" is an example of a family of...