An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...We dreamed not of the Reagan-era Sunbelt but of a different world, a new, new, new South. And in the university's libraries and archives and studios and galleries and concert...
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...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the hikers, John Yoshida had no intention of coming back. Some time after noon on Sunday, January 17, he slipped past the barbed wire fence encircling the Jerome camp. Though...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...guitar] [0.00–0.14] That Sunday woman, she bring me the news That Monday woman, boys, I’m telling you Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t no telling, man,...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...exactly where I was standing when it all sunk in. I was photographing in Mississippi in early March 2020, on spring break from teaching at Duke, my near annual pilgrimage...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...with a ballad sung on the picket line at the Brookside mine in Harlan County, Kentucky. Noting the importance of music in many everyday activities and locales, Gaventa, Greatrex, and...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940 (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2017), 24, 5, 8. Capó explores how influential powerbrokers and everyday people contributed to the process of transforming "Miami...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...projects may take any of a number of forms. Please contact us if you have any questions about our process, infrastructure, or other aspects of digital project publishing. Southern Spaces editors are...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...