Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...will defeat me and my tribe. Who is he to imagine he will kill me with his songs, sacred or commonplace? Who is he to be sure that his spirits...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
From James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (a play), "Notes for Blues." (1964): The play then, for me, takes place in Plaguetown, U.S.A., now. The plague is race, the plague...
Darkly
...one side, thicket on the other, the story of a bridge between. Below, the water's huddled, cold and silver. It won't show a thing. So I look for that place...
Anniversary
...skin. You're still there. And Bob Zellner, you are walking free so that when we come anger's not the only place to stand. Be with us now so we can...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...spaces beyond the Anglo East (and especially the Northeast) as zones of ignorance with no place in America's intellectual history, much less the history of science" (7). Historians of the...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...the rhetorical situation of writing about memory and place collected in "Social Memory and Memorialization," for example, uncovers compelling differences in audience, purpose, tone, style, register, claims, structures, and arguments...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...close. Increasingly, online sales and the growth of cattle factory farms are rendering live auctions irrelevant. While I am not from Searcy County, my connections to the place stretch back...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...at southerners across an imagined territory, recounts his journey, twelve states wide and a quarter-mile deep. That, to be sure, deserves a special place on any bookstore's Flit Lit shelf....
Work
Poem This poem was filmed at the Glencoe Mill in Glencoe, North Carolina in Fall 2005 by Chris Simms and Tom Rankin from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke...