Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...spatial relations of groups with legacies of conflict and division. In July we began our discussions with public policy advocates and congressional staffers in Washington. Most of the group's time...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...sang it this way this time, you got to sing it the same way the next time. Mitchell: Well not all the time. Jim Bunkley: Well, just whichever way you...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...it to understand it. King's work reified and reinforced conceptions of how the idea of the South functioned in the American imaginary of that time: an exotic "other" land to...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...a hard time beginning in a plural voice. Also, his voice has previously appeared on the Southern Spaces blog. go film as part of my fieldwork. I propped myself up...
How I Shed My Skin
...culture's feigned warmth, courtesy, and piety. While hindsight affords Grimsley insight into the significance of his middle school years, at the time—about most matters of importance—Jimmy "had no idea" (6)...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...in 1973, which was the worst single attack on LGBT people in the US before Pulse. Fieseler has recently written an incredibly moving essay about his time self-distancing with his...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...humor, the southwestern humorists of antebellum times displaced the traditional gentleman, supplanting him not with a counter-ideal but with rugged, sometimes openly anarchist anti-heroes. If we follow the development of...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...back on college. Also a story of the 1980s. I wrote an essay one time that developed the idea of southern yuppies as a social type, and the folks in...