Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...and St. Louis to New Orleans and St. Petersburg, Florida, from April to December 1961. Raymond Arsenault's 2006 book, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, gives the...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
Zircon
...The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, is forthcoming in April 2016. In addition, Morgan is author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays,...
Work
...Lejeune and a year in Irmo, South Carolina. On April Fool's Day 2000, she married a cowboy and moved to middle Tennessee, where her husband encouraged her to ride horses...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...areas. Local knowledge about the existence of the virus and its spreadability increased.3Compared to the baseline, 26% more people knew that both hands need to be washed, 11% more people...
Quilting Conversation
...and quilting. Quilting Conversation panelists, Atlanta, Georgia, September 22, 2018. From left: Katherine Jentleson, Marquetta Johnson, Michael Moon, Mary Margaret Pettway, and Erin Jane Nelson. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces....
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Transformative Potential of Imoinda: An Interview with Joan Anim-Addo," Synthesis 7 (2015):154–163. http://synthesis.enl.uoa.gr/perspectives-from-the-radical-other-7-2015.html. 12 Years a Slave marquee at the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival, October 11, 2013. Photograph by...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...perform at a Gaither Homecoming Friends concert, Fort Worth, Texas, April 4, 2009. The other main theme Harrison examines is how southern gospel, from its cultural origins during Reconstruction to...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...