Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
"Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield, recorded in Plains, Georgia, 1976. Courtesy of George Mitchell and Fat Possum Records. From "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford. [Acoustic...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...Georgia Press, 1985), 68. In concluding his chapter on "The Obsolescence of 'Passing,'" Reed remembers he came to understand at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival during the 1990s how...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000); One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013);...
Birth Right
...My Babies, that portrayed a visual and narrative context for the role of Georgia midwives as primary birthing attendants. A lack of education among the general population and among medical...
Insistent Traces
...Pharoah. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, and Crazyhorse. In 2008 Emerson was named Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...Center (EOC), Atlanta, Georgia, 2020. Photograph by and courtesy of Jim Gathany. Image is in the public domain. "Organizational learning," according to a leading researcher in the field and her...
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Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...