View from giant sombrero, South of the Border, South Carolina, 2007
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...media. It pairs very nicely with Anna Creadick's 2017 Southern Cultures article "Banjo Boy: Masculinity, Disability, and Difference in Deliverance." Recently Published at Southern Spaces "Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt" by...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive launch party poster, Holly Hobbs, 2014. The NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive, the first university-affiliated southern rap archive in the Deep South, is now online....
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...the firmness of her tone. "Their pain was unparalleled," she observed. "Their pain is still here. It burns in the soul of every person of African descent in the United...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
Introduction I begin an exploration of the history of prejudice by looking at the process of othering—or social and political distancing—that is a central part of the history of African...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...January, Tim Scott will be the only African American in the Senate and just the fifth to serve since Reconstruction. Scott is the first African American Senator in South Carolina's...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...leading to US and British decisions to abolish the trade of enslaved Africans Part 4: Davis explores decreasing support for the trade of enslaved Africans and impacts of the French...