The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Altidor. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Courtesy of New York University Press. Crossing the Water and Keeing the Faith opens with a vivid description of Alex Jean Altidor's prominent mural at...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...A CC BY-NC (attribution, non-commercial) license allows for copies, distribution, display, or performances of a work by attribution, but only for non-commercial uses. This license also allows for derivative works....
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...States. He also gives particular attention to the role of Spanish colonial policies on manumission, self-purchase, and militia service in creating New Orleans’s unique caste of free people of color....
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...of traditional civil rights historiography rooted almost exclusively in southern states before the Watts riots, and Gadsden's focus on Delaware also stands alongside previous studies on border states, including Clarence...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...Although the chintz fabric in the Bensons' quilt connects it with Charleston fashions, the style of the quilt is quite different. Rather than cutting out the individual floral wreath motifs...
Seeing Sound: Mapping Florentine Soundscapes
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker Niall Atkinson is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History and the College at the University of Chicago. His publications include The Noisy...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...Radical Environmentalism. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020). They move beyond a celebratory narrative to embed the environmental movement within the larger political and social developments of the past half-century....
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...meaningfully increase BIPOC representation on our editorial board. To equip Southern Spaces staff with critical tools to assess scholarship on racial and social injustice. We commit to implementing annual staff...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...or conceptual boundaries, Loichot's analysis flows into the murky waters of Katrina and its racial and environmental violence in "Mami Wata the Formidable." Loichot wades through the ethical ambiguity of...