Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...southern literary studies coalesced around a set of ostensibly southern senses (of place, community, family, "the concrete") and Faulknerian formulas ("You would have to be born there," "I don't hate...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...remembers 'that chairs were placed on the balcony of the two-story building to accommodate the crowds gathered to witness the lynching,' while he stayed behind locked doors in his office,...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...tribute to New Orleans. In doing so, they identify Ellington's attempts at representing place, history, and culture in the city, his multi-genre approach, and his identity as a New Orleans...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...to songs later placed in categories like the blues, jazz, folk music, and country music. For musicians and fans in the South, then, any music they heard or made in...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...community members petitioned for its inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 2005, a small plaque marking the events of 1963 was placed on the building....
Gold Records in Deep Space
...time and place, amid social pressures and situations of prejudice. Wenders claims that the music and the archival material should "speak for itself," but the film's primary concern is the...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
Call for Blog Posts Southern Spaces is an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global...
How I Shed My Skin
...the premise" (79). Though Grimsley remembers hearing these jokes in many places—"at a country store or a service station, places where men talked to other men" (79)—he recalls local churches...
Geography
...a producer for the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place, in which she has published three previous pieces, Congregation, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space....
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...in those cities, gay bars were dangerous and illicit places—but they were also the birthplace of the emerging gay rights movement. Queer communities formed, and they demanded equality. It was...