The Bulletin—July 2, 2013
...Congress in 2006 after lawmakers concluded that racial discrimination during elections, redistricting, and voter registration did, indeed, still exist. In 2011, Shelby County—an Alabama county that previously fell under the...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...work from Hale County, Alabama, that documents the subtle and dramatic changes remaking the area’s vernacular architecture and environmental landscape year after year. Rankin’s photographs of Mt. Tinna focus viewers’...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Studies at the University of Alabama. Infrastructure Seen and Unseen: An Excerpt from Petrochemical America by Kate Orff Infrastructure Louisiana's natural geography has been radically repurposed into a vast network...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Kennedy has lived and worked in the rural towns of Gordo and York, Alabama, as well as the urban center of Detroit, Michigan, where he currently resides. Print from The...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...from Vernon, Alabama, sitting in his shop surrounded by wood-paneled walls decorated with a deer head and trophy fish. According to one of the article’s quoted experts, the South was...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Brown, Common Meter, 511t
...impressive hour, And lead to endless day. Chorus: From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17 August 2010 ©...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...