Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...fathers to sons and in the supposedly free exchange of affectional ties between a male and female of his choice—becomes the mythically revered privilege of a free and freed community"...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...early to late twentieth century, Ossabaw's ownership changed several times, but the island remained largely undeveloped and sparsely inhabited. The last private owners were members of the Torrey family, starting...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...our Wikipedia contribution practices and also improving Wikipedia. As we make changes here at the journal, I wanted to encourage our readership to think about contributing to Wikipedia. When you...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...account of the 'Tunes,' but my object has been to change the flow of those sweet melodies (so often disgraced by Comic Negro Songs, and sung by our own people,)...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Estados Unidos” fue seleccionado para la serie Espacios sureños (Southern Spaces) del 2010 “Migración, movilidad, intercambio y el sur de los Estados Unidos” ("Migration, Mobility, Exchange, and the U.S. South,")...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...Changes focusing upon prisons and prisoners; and Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter (2002, with Winson Hudson). Curry is also the producer/researcher for the documentary film The Intolerable Burden...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...what poor little Lucy Mae do That Tuesday woman, she took pocket change That Wednesday woman, she wanna do the same Better not let my good gal catch you here...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
Blog Post I recently bought a crumbling old house in a historically gay neighborhood in Roanoke, Virginia. I met my ex-lover in this house five years ago. At the time...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Jesse Peel on the Geography of Atlanta's LGBT Community
...a gay bar as you're coming out, it's probably a good idea to shift to a larger venue." Randy Gue interviews Jesse R. Peel. This exchange presents Peel's conversational style...
Single Centers of Creation?
.... . but then climates change, continents shift, and some groups re-evolve ancient characters, or several distantly related groups evolve similar traits (called convergent evolution), confusing the evolutionary biologists who...