Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to address questions of spatial justice Currently Southern Spaces seeks submissions that engage...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...through the use of textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions. The COVID-19 series examines relationships between pandemic public health and specific geographies in the US and global...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...racial logic of gender construction, specifically how Cobb's deviant body was required to "make Martha Gault's idealized body real, to give it political, cultural, and social meaning" (23). Here lies...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...a central role in the national schism of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1844-45 over the issue of Andrew's slave-owning. In April 1844 Longstreet executed a complex legal deed...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...old questions about social inequality and the regional history of investments and expectations for public education and economic prosperity. Debates continue about how best to allocate and utilize place-specific local...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...building served as a general medical-surgical hospital until it was closed in 1979. It contained operating rooms, wards for medical and surgical cases, a clinical laboratory, an x-ray department, an...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Historical and Genealogical Magazine 50, no. 3 (1949): 115–26. For references to the carriage-making reputation of the town, see "Pendleton," The Historical Marker Database, accessed July 20, 2022, https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=9614. Local...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...and green were produced by early chemical dyes. Before the development of aniline dyes in 1859, all fabric dyes were produced from animal, vegetable, or mineral products. The brownish-red and...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...This technique is similar to the sew-and-fold technique in Log Cabin patchwork. Two of the blocks incorporate geometric pieced blocks, probably left over from another quilt. In the other six...