Piedmont Blues
...other artists—in this sense, he was a synthesizer of styles, parallel in many ways to Robert Johnson." Also similar to Johnson, Fuller lived the hard blues life, dying at the...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will hear, float down this river, sting the skin of slaves? I am the one who cries the music of God, and Tuscaloosa is mine. He cannot live past my...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...I'm alive and you ain't. We ain't never now, never going to be equals and you know why? One of us is dead." (Collected Stories, 604) Published: 11...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...of our grandmothers who are pierced, and probably do not want to hear about Thomas Hardy, who, if I remember, has been dead longer than they have been alive, And...
Frank Willis
...called "civic," the things you had to know. Today in some way I somehow care that Frank Willis lives with his mother, without employ, was arrested for stealing a $12...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
Review Historians Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, professors at California State University, Fresno, have produced a brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging place-based exploration of competing narratives of racial enslavement....
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...writers and creators of any orientation whose work addresses the lives of LGBTQ+ persons and/or applies queer and feminist theory to various topics. We encourage a diversity of methods and...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...reconsideration of the "Southern Renaissance," and a visit by poet Sean Hill to the segregated cemetery where she is buried. These sources explore Andalusia and Milledgeville as lived spaces alongside...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...and the senses.1 Nicholas J. Saunders and Paul Cornish, eds., Modern Conflict and the Senses (New York: Routledge, 2017). It yields many important insights into the lived experience of the...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Deal and the Origins of Our Time (New York: Liveright, 2013). State Parks For Negroes Exhibit, State Fair Grounds, Richland County, South Carolina, 1958. Photograph by unknown creator, South Carolina...