African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...mobs of White men numbering in the thousands chased, beat, and massacred Blacks on the streets of downtown Atlanta. This was the bloody response to erroneous reports of Black men...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...(3). John Adams Whipple, Louis Agassiz, January, 1865. With great thoroughness, Sex, Sickness, and Slavery documents how physicians eagerly brought the evidence of medical science to the aid of the...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...States is here generally broken into a number of subgenres of rap and bounce, though the definitions and boundaries of these categories are fluid and often change according to whom...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...https://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards. ———. "Geography." January 11, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. ———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey." June 25, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey. ———. "Theories of Time and Space." June 20, 2005. https://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space. Interviews Albergotti,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Review On June 19, 1911, the quiet evening descending on Thorndale, Texas, shattered suddenly when a group of men exiting a saloon attacked a youth they found whittling wood. Eyewitnesses...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...sceptre, In one hand he holds the rod— In the other hand the Scripture, And says that he's a man of God. —Joshua McCarter Simpson Joshua McCarter Simpson, ca. 1840–1876....
Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Seaberg holds up the reel of J.B. Lenoir footage she and her husband shot in Chicago in 1965. The Soul of a Man, 2003. In the documentary tradition, archival footage...