Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...post-World War II era that paid particular attention to immigrant populations and experiences. I grew frustrated by assumptions I had to make about what pre-1940 Miami looked like. For starters,...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...to its study sites, has conducted world-renowned research on salt-marsh ecology and other aspects of natural communities on and around the island. Reynolds' widow, Annemarie Reynolds, sold much of the...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...attack on a consensus history.2Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought since the Revolution (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955). In scores of...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...southwestern humor. Standard English, which in a properly ordered world should constitute privilege, in the South conceived as border region is little more than a very inadequate shield against abrupt...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...ways. We fervently hope for "a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."2"About," Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/about. Southern Spaces is a journal devoted to critically and...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to...
When the Border Crossed Me
...films Faces of Time and Brother Towns/Pueblos Hermanos, and the book Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois Press, 2011)....
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi...
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...power. Food power, most often deployed when describing international wars and political conflict, gestures towards moments where, within “a hierarchical world system” access to food or food related autonomy is...