Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...1899 to 1963. Like most photographers in nineteenth-century America, the Burgerts did commercial work. Technological advances in the late nineteenth-century gave birth to this specific field of professional photography conducted...
Bodies and Souls
...Screenshot by Southern Spaces. I knew that I wanted to make a film about rural healthcare, largely explored through observational footage in a clinic, to shed light on the real...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...TV. "How can I miss you when you won't go away?" sings native Arkansan Dan Hicks in his tongue-in-cheek classic. As someone continually and deeply interested in individual stories, personal...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Crow as irredeemably violent and repressive. The ILD fought legal lynchings in the courts; its supporters—numbering several thousand in Alabama alone by the early 1930s—argued that the real fight was...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...what waits on up the road, worst of all the calves I have to pull one piece at a time, birthing death. Though sometimes it all works out. I turn...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...middle and place one food in South Carolina and one in Georgia so she can tell her friends back in Minnesota she has been in two states at the same...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...traditional sources and deep archival work. But digital methods give me more tools to do what we’re all trying to accomplish, which is to answer questions. It allows me to...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Birmingham News, and the Louisville Courier, to investigate case after case of racial injustice in the South and the nation. Her 1948 marriage to Carl Braden, the son of recent...
Unquiet Emmett Till
..."not guilty" verdict, which leads Mace to conclude, "Such letters made it clear that most people were tired of business as usual when it came to cases of racial violence"...