The US South and the 2008 Election
...the late 1960s he was part of a new generation of conservative political activists. His 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority was a veritable blueprint for GOP politics. Phillips recognized...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Black Issues Book Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Bum...
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:...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...differing reactions to the plague and to its stages is amazingly on target. I'm in a book club, and our current reading is Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope. It's a...
Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...Gallery in San Francisco. In 2006 a limited-edition book of her Memphis photographs was sold at Burke's Book Store. 2008 finds Amie working on the photo-per-day "Memphis Project 366," in...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...small farming, but having been influenced by my growing knowledge of Latin American agriculture and advocacy work with Central American refugees as well, I sought to understand agriculture globally. I...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...and Jesse, a French woman and American man (played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke), who meet on a train and spend one night wandering around Vienna flirting and talking...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...evolving distribution of historical power. "As Charleston proves better than any American city, the memory of slavery has always been fraught and contested ground" (349). The book's title, which refers...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...entrevistadora y el entrevistado Bridgette W. Gunnels is Associate Professor of Spanish at Emory University and a scholar in Latin American literature from the twentieth century, in all forms, with...