Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...on the journey. He modeled himself after his father, Edward Scott Sr., a sharecropper-turned-landowner who brought the family from Alabama to Mississippi in 1919. (When Scott's mother, Juanita, pleaded to...
At Cornwall Furnace
Cherokee County, Alabama Blown out just after The War. The stack's granite gapes. Each year saplings try, as gravity has longer, a reclamation masonry won't allow. Lichens and moss do...
Bunk Richardson
Lynching photograph: February 11, 1906: Gadsden, Alabama The rope grips the iron where the iron bites into its hold. A noose of rust, dried blood. The dew has frozen in...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...continually pressed towards uneasy edges, its safe, established mental contours confronting increasingly crude, disrespectful threats. Southwestern humorists were pioneers of southern resistance literature who, to varying degrees, debunked notions of...
Birdhouses
...seen the purple martin house and gourd tree there together, they seemed on this day desperately vacant. Meditations on home. How else to explain the accumulation of nearly thirty photographs...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...husband. Holly Jackson's American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation has helped ground my teaching in Introduction to American Studies. I was honored to read Valérie Loichot's Water Graves:...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...analyses speculating on this literary emergence, see Allen Tate's "The Profession of Letters in the South," Virginia Quarterly Review 11 (1935), 161–176; C. Vann Woodward's "Why the Southern Renaissance?," Virginia...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Charles, there was John Greenwell, who ran away from Alabama to Atlanta and found a new home at the Sweet Gum Head. John became Rachel Wells—and Rachel became a drag...
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