Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...occurred at predominantly black rural churches from Arkansas to Virginia, targeted the very places that writer Amiri Baraka has described as the "social focal points" of black life.3LeRoi Jones, Blues...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
Readings Patrick Phillips reads "Brass Knuckles." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "The Chimney." Poem text. Patrick Phillips reads "The Flood." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads "Heaven." Poem text Patrick Phillips reads an excerpt...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
...Studies from Yale University and is an assistant professor in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Our South (2010, Harvard University Press)....
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
"Possum on Terrace": A Typed Manuscript from John Egerton on Journalist Johnny Popham
...conference and Popham's biography. A Virginia native, Popham was sent by the New York Times to cover the US South in the mid-twentieth century. In 1958, after twenty-five years on...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Earl Dotter, Environmental activist volunteers, Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2005. From Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining and the Environment. Southern Spaces editors will work with authors, photographers, artists, and videographers in...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...French and English at Emory University. She is the author of Orphan Narratives: The Postplantation Literatures of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (University of Virginia Press, 2007) and The...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
Review "Lynching of Negroes is growing to be a southern pastime," declared the Reverend D. A. Graham of the A.M.E. church in a sermon preached in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part...
Letter: Blues
...hooks. A sidewalk crack in Washington, D.C. Will feed my city dirt roots. Wait for me. Published in The Venus Hottentot (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1990). Published: 10...