Quilting Conversation
...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...March, and gave rise to the national clamor that assured the Voting Rights Act became law. Aerial view of marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 1965. Since 1965, the Edmund...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
...and is the author of Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory (2008) and editor of Skin Deep, Spirit Strong: The Black Female Body in American Culture (2002)....
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
Yard decorations, Glenwood Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...of the striking miners are African American, and he felt a strong spirit of solidarity across racial lines. The miners Dixon spoke with were upbeat, ready to keep fighting for...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...counter-narratives Queer(ing) ethics and morality Faith, religion, and spirituality Media and Genre Analyses Film and video (Queer Cinema) Literary studies Art, visual rhetoric, and representation Archives: reclamations and erasures Love...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...work documenting the stories of the pioneers and legends who helped to create New Orleans rap and bounce. Housed by the Amistad Research Center and the Tulane University Digital Library,...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...Binding," in Talking the Boundless Book: Art, Language, and the Book Arts, ed. Charles Alexander (Minneapolis: Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 1995), 47. Kennedy's posters, on which he literally spells...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...no longer "the center of the political universe." To me this was wrongheaded. First of all, as Jim Cobb pointed out in his own reaction to the piece, since when...