Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...devastating and troubling account of blue-collar Americans and a portrait of the sorry state of public policy, but with a hopefulness about what needs to be done. I'm enjoying selectively...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...in flames was paved over to expand Highway 202 to accommodate Anniston Army Depot traffic. The controversy over a memorial became particularly heated in 2006. Calhoun County Commissioner Eli Henderson,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...author identifies ripple effects caused by these changes, such as the increased policing of second lines and jazz funerals, two outcomes that Sakakeeny interprets as both result and strategy of...
When the Border Crossed Me
...afternoon I walked out of my farm field to meet five men from Mexico. They drove into my driveway in an old beat up blue Impala, got out in the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...night laborers, nightcrawlers. Cottonmouths. Plantation houses on Indian Mounds. Jukes. Blues. Open roads. Dark and lonely cells. Government assistance. Government neglect. Lots not yet vacant but long past occupied. Ribs,...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...ten years. Three primary factors account for this recent, unrelenting increase in the South: demographic changes, state economic problems, and a history of persistent poverty and low income. Several southern...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...history as sense-making activity, not merely a litany of dates and deeds. Ideally, readers can feel the pulse of a given period, sniff the atmosphere, and see events in a...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...locale makes the decisions on the ceremony, program, marker design, and text. To date, nine sites have sponsored ceremonies in conjunction with the project since 2012: Baltimore, Maryland, Sotterley Plantation...