Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...Miller's brilliant new book Segregating Sound is this one: it makes thinking about the meaning of the history of this crazy section of the United States and contemporary "country" songs...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...and political in-fighting. By the 1960s, while attention was on the southern United States in the fight for civil rights and political enfranchisement, Mound Bayou, like many other Black towns...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...they will not heed. What you scream from it they do not hear.”3Toni Morrison, Beloved (New York: Vintage Books, 1987), 82. Apt then that “Evergreen,” the second of Bey’s short...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...land and wealth of the mountains for their own profit.1See Ronald D. Eller, Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982). During...
Dirty Little Story
...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....
Southern Spaces Recommends
...next generation who they are and how they got here?" Amelia Golcheski, social media manager and editorial associate: I just finished Emma Copley Eisenberg's debut book The Third Rainbow Girl:...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and Refinery, Mississippi River Corridor, Louisiana, 1998 from Petrochemical America, photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012). © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;...
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...