The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...simply because he was gay, as they confessed.31See Allen Tullos, Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2011), 39–42. And in 2004,...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Georgia, and have five children. Joyce Martin is married to Paul Michael Sanders, who has had periodic jobs as a southern gospel singer. They live in Nashville and have two...
Dirty Little Story
...But I wonder if any of them say more about us. About the Author A native of Georgia, Rheta Grimsley Johnson grew up in Alabama where she attended Auburn University....
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
Essay On a spring evening in 1911, a mob of about fifty white men in the small city of Livermore, Kentucky, lynched Will Potter on the stage of the local...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....
When the Border Crossed Me
Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...Press of Mississippi, 1995), Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), and One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...board member at Southern Spaces. She is the author of New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2016) and The Rise and Fall of...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
"Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield, recorded in Plains, Georgia, 1976. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. [Acoustic...