Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...can all have enough." Charles Reagan Wilson, editorial board: I have just finished Albert Camus's The Plague, which I had never read. It's a profound book. And his portrayal of...
Geography
...Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
When the Border Crossed Me
...extensively so I can learn and teach others. My own farm is but a memory. My latest book, entitled Border Odyssey: Travels Along the U.S./Mexico Divide, is a memoir, a...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Texas Cherokees numbered several hundred while around five thousand western Cherokees settled in present-day western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. Many of the 16,500 who still inhabited their ancestral homeland in...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Sacred Harp singing and specific places have long been a part of the musical form. These connections are even indexed in The Sacred Harp songbook. Composers of many Sacred Harp...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...from clarinetist and musical activist Dr. Michael White. White famously lost to the floodwaters an important personal collection: thousands of books and rare recordings, original sheet music and correspondence from...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...(accessed December 7, 2009). In his book The Texture of Memory, James Young acknowledges the dynamics of memorialization by suggesting: "it may also be true that the surest engagement with...