Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...forms a suggestive parallel to the southern novel, as it continues to develop as a site of political fiction that uses the "not dead" past to reflect on problems in...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...area. Potential themes for presentation topics include (but are not limited to): Public Space and Private Property Downtown Atlanta as a Site of Political Struggle Urban Mobility and Access Urban...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...return, of repeatedly revisiting the same sites in Hale County. The six photographs on display here of Coleman’s Café in Greensboro in 1971, 1972, 1975, 1977, 1978, and 1980 literally...
Negotiating Black Identities
Video Part 2: Dr. Lacy outlines her sources, methods, and sites of analysis in Prince George's County, MD and Fairfax County, VA Part 3: Dr. Lacy explores the construction...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...up of daily logs, filled with short conversations or encounters, and some proto-analysis of what was seen. Fieldnotes are also the site of thick description, which is the act of...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled fugitives and Christians to find new sites for these and other forbidden activities. Neighborhood was an important space in slave society, but it did not delimit the boundaries of...
Darkly
...if light swept from the channel or the opposite shore. The sky is empty, and the river's bent like a question too close or too far away to read. "Darkly"...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to address questions of spatial justice Currently Southern Spaces seeks submissions that engage...