"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
Introduction (Given by Margaret Rose Gladney) Minnie Bruce Pratt was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, in the hospital closest to her hometown of Centreville. She graduated from Bibb...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
...of American Historians. He is currently at work on the Nathan I. Huggins Lectures in African-American History, to be delivered at Harvard University in 2007, and on a history of...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...On behalf of all of us here at Emory I’d like to thank the Callaloo Conference participants, staff, volunteers, and editor Charles Rowell. We are especially delighted that tonight’s event...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...media. It pairs very nicely with Anna Creadick's 2017 Southern Cultures article "Banjo Boy: Masculinity, Disability, and Difference in Deliverance." Recently Published at Southern Spaces "Writing Appalachia: An Excerpt" by...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...listen is as ordinary as seeing the mail being delivered. The only time he might turn down a conversation would be under similar circumstances to when he had us reschedule:...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...Meridel Le Sueur, just fourteen years old when she first heard Mother Jones speak, recalled, "I felt engendered by the true mother, not the private mother of one family, but...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...communities (including liberal students at Austin's University of Texas campus) in a diversified blend one step removed from mass culture. Musicologist Travis Stimeling has delineated key sonic elements that helped...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...they hold the ghost of the classical fieldnote. They're punctuated by experience rather than a strict chronology. They were written from memory—specifically, memory delimited by another person. These fieldnotes are...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Studies at Duke. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993); Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995); Local Heroes...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...