James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...McClellanville, South Carolina. She received her M.F.A. in Photography from Georgia State University School of Art and Design in 1996. Her work is widely exhibited and collected. Marshall's awards include...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Bourne, then working in Atlanta at Beard's record store, did the art direction and design. Reagan had been elected president just as the album came out, and many critics heard...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...inland ecosystems of Ossabaw, especially the maritime forests and salt marshes, were altered considerably by this agriculture. Following the American Civil War, a significant population of African Americans stayed on...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Community, after all, was a key word in the new social history. For revisionist historians "community" signaled a broad...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long. I've also been listening to some music that's helping me adapt to this new world we're in: "World of Strange Design"...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...suppression Print culture and protest (pamphlets, broadsides, flyers, picket signs, graffiti) Politics in fiction and popular culture Examples Southern Spaces continually accepts submissions within several genres of multimedia scholarship, including...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...have been aware of it and learned what took place" (44). He writes of a 1933 petition to integrate the city pool, "a petition signed by 123 people (one of...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Encountering COVID
...was really impacted our healthcare workers and public health officials. I interviewed people who had significant responsibilities, including top public health officials in major metropolitan areas, and they stepped away or are in...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...