Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...US South is neither solid nor exceptional. It lacks an essence (and therefore cannot be known in essentialist terms), a polity, and clearly defined boundaries. Such, at least, are some...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Sacred Harp singers like myself, thirty or so listeners from the Calhoun area, and three participants in a related predominantly-black shape-note singing community who had long heard of Sacred Harp...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...so I'll just add a few more thoughts. I think I'm a pretty disciplined writer. I'm a former journalist (still contributing to journalism, but now as a trained historian) who...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...theoretical approaches. All submissions must be original work. Although we expect submissions to consider space, place, and LGBTQ+ subjects critically in relation to the series, the list of possible topics...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...black students' educational experiences and possibilities. For more insight into segregation across the Atlanta metro region, listen to Karen Pooley's featured interview and read her full article at Southern Spaces....
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...inequalities. His work also assesses differences as productive mechanisms of affiliation, identity, coalition, and struggle. Informed by queer, feminist, materialist, critical race, and spatial theory, his research and teaching are...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...arm, said, “Listen, you stick close to me when you go out back, they’re gonna get ya’.” Me, I follow suit down, shower up snack bar and closing fourteen, I’m...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...to the states of the "mid-South:" Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. I decided to photograph in all of the cities in those states that the 2000 census listed as...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....