At Liberty (1961)
21 September 1961, Liberty, Mississippi Everyone will say he drove to the gin with a truck full of cotton so he drives to the gin and gets in line, and...
Heaven
...will be the past. And it will last forever. Published in Boy (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). Published: 14 April 2009 © 2009 Patrick Phillips and Southern Spaces...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...first appeared in The Northwest Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000). Group of striking union miners & the familys [sic] living in tents, Lick Creek, West Virginia, April 12, 1922....
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...a high-rise condominium behind the central core of the old City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant, Austin, Texas, April 19, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Library...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
Review The Ohio River figures prominently in what are arguably the three most significant novels of American slavery. Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Toni Morrison's Beloved both feature...
New Website for Music Memory
In April 2012, Southern Spaces published an interview with Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital Records, in which he discussed the operations of his Atlanta-based record label. During the interview, Ledbetter mentioned...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...April 2010, the Scottsboro Multicultural Foundation secured a permanent home for the museum, the former Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church, whose congregation had dwindled. Just a few blocks from the...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...May 12, 2012, accessed September 24, 2014, http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2012/05/louisiana_is_the_worlds_prison.html. By presenting life histories of several brass band musicians, Roll With It illustrates that the conditions that allow some to succeed and...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
Emory University's Digital Scholarship Commons is excited to invite proposals for presentations at the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium. The day-long symposium will be held on April 26, 2013 in...