At Sun Ra's Grave
Birmingham, 2001 Now our god's dismantled, iron arms, iron hands now laid away, vacant head beside his vacant feet. Vulcan, God of All the Fire That Sleeps in Mountains now...
Stones and Shadows
...sound of traffic from the highway is insufferable. I smile at my father and try to think of kind things to say to him. He smiles. But driving home, he...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...different imperial pressures, call upon us to shift our framework for studying the history of knowledge in early America in several ways. First and foremost, these case studies demand a...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...English-only laws that paved the way for the segregation of Mexicans in public schools. Outraged over the unequal treatment of their children, Mexican Americans in San Angelo protested, asserting their...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...finally queering or not queering. In this way, to queer is to exist as subjects in the transitive space of choice between doing and not doing. The question shifts from...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the historical art market. In a world where maps abound on pocket devices and where we make wayfinders with a few clicks on our screens, we may forget the complexities...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Review Bohemia Spillway New Distributary, Mardi Gras Pass, March 2012. Photograph by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Courtesy of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. A curious thing happened in Louisiana...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...series represents "Parks'[s] consequential rethinking of the types of images that could sway public opinion on civil rights."3Maurice Berger, "With a Small Camera Tucked in My Pocket," in Gordon Parks,...