Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...they are up to no good. It's a lighthearted and bloody good time that has a lot to say about conceptions of Appalachia that are propagated through popular culture and...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...is now a medical office. I come here once a year to see my endocrinologist. He prescribes spironolactone and estradiol to help my body transform into something approximating that of...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...Haaland in May 2021 approved a revision in the Cherokee Nation constitution restoring citizenship status to Cherokee persons of African descent, and indicated her expectation that Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, Chickasaw, and...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to learn differing local white rules of Jim Crow if and when they moved to new places across the southern states—and even in the same city where rules applied differently...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...project is able to present an appeal for ceremonies and markers at each arrival site based upon scholarly research. In a very real way, this is the direct and immediate...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...eliciting and using multiple viewpoints; acknowledging hierarchies, policies, and practices that have not worked; and trying new approaches that have a higher likelihood of success. A prime example of an opportunity...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...resumed restricting social safety nets while offering few, if any, alternatives? Changing policy is one problem organizers face, burnout is another. Studies have suggested that we approach "burnout as a...
The Chesapeake Bay
...scientists. Their interdisciplinary approach to understanding the Chesapeake ecosystem and its history indicates a central commonality across centuries of human presence in the region: the close proximity of natural and...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...Foster currently receives little traffic, making the plaque an ineffective memorial. Though Foster, along with sixty-four other buildings, appears on the University's "virtual tour," the website devotes a sparse two...