Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...labels of leisurely consumption. Racial divides further hide this fragmented waterway, and the environmental merges with the Sunshine City's flickering, all-too-easily-denied Jim Crow past. Today only a handful of locals...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...of Cuba—the region which this book focuses on—many were only partially free. They had paid a portion of the price for their manumission while continuing to do some work for...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...less tied to place than the other whites in that tattoo parlor—that he is much more mobile culturally, economically, ideologically, and geographically. Reed's unmarked whiteness allows him to travel in...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...early to late twentieth century, Ossabaw's ownership changed several times, but the island remained largely undeveloped and sparsely inhabited. The last private owners were members of the Torrey family, starting...
Writing Appalachia
...say "Appalachia"? Geographically and conceptually, debate over this question runs high. Appalachian Counties Served by ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission), October 8, 2008. Map created by and courtesy of ARC. Merely...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...done up to this point: show us real aging, real maturation.4Obviously, many films have sequels (and prequels), but most aren't purposefully playing with the (dis)continuity of time the way Linklater's...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...proudly and safely into the straight world outside the confines of bars and clubs once designated specifically as "gay spaces." Fifty years ago, none of those things was true. Queer...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...hollow square is both a practically necessary convention and a deeply meaningful space. Encircled by full-voiced singing to hymn texts such as Isaac Watts's "Within Thy circling pow'r I stand,...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...coverage. Media historians, too, have reviewed hundreds of hours of television news film and found it visually uninteresting. Television, some argue, mainly followed elite opinion; it did not lead. See...
Editors
...Spaces, and Southern Cultures. She is currently working on The Lyncher in the Family, a book about her grandfather, a Mississippi sheriff, and white Americans' inability to reckon with the history...