Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (University of Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Bottom, Soybean field, Crittenden County, Arkansas, August 3, 2013. Photograph by Thomas R. Machnitzki....
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...is in careful looking. Sometimes I am not sure what I am looking for, so I am in a state of watchfulness. When I went to Andalusia in August, there...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Southern Spaces, May 30, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/battle-atlanta-history-and-remembrance. Please submit proposals (350–700 words) to seditor@emory.edu by March 17, 2016. Accepted proposals will be developed into full projects for submission by August 1, 2016....
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Too Painful." MTV.com. 26 August 2003. MTV. 10 January 2008. Still inside the House of Cash from "Hurt" video, 2002. In Wenders' The Soul of a Man, archival traces —...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...by Rosanne Cash, "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" by the Byrds, and "Stop This World" by Mose Allison. Theotis Taylor, Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 1977. Photograph by Beverly J. Robinson. Courtesy of...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...