Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...singers negotiated their associations of Sacred Harp singing with place. Lauren Bock, 196-86, Gdansk Airport, Poland, 2012. The song on page 196 in The Sacred Harp is titled "Alabama"; the...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...systemic racism and economic inequality in the United States. Intended to reach a broad audience through television airings, distribution to high schools and colleges, and presentations by grassroots organizations and...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...1930. Brochure by Advertising Service Agency. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Kytle and Roberts inventory various iterations of the dominant slavery narrative and provide valuable details that include microhistories of...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...the same hopes. Watching this situation unfold from the US, then President Jimmy Carter issued an open invitation to anyone from Cuba who was fleeing the Castro regime, bypassing in...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...trends related to migration, de-industrialization, the rise of the service economy, the importance of tourism, race relations, violence, and working-class struggles. To this end, we welcome full panels on a...
A Mess of Poke
...the pound to bring in the raw product. Allen ran its last batch of canned poke sallet in 2000. As the company's supervisor explained on an Arkansas Extension Service web...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...citizens, and farmers restructured the power dynamics imposed on them by the white plantation class through the creation of an autonomous food economy in service to the needs, desire, and...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...and from 1964 to 1975, worked as a field representative for the American Friends Service Committee on issues of voter registration, school desegregation, and economic development in the US South....
Welcome!
Welcome to the Southern Spaces blog. Since our first publication in 2004, Southern Spaces has been invested in peer-reviewed, multi-media, open-access scholarship. Over the past few years, we have redesigned...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...