Six Yellow Stanzas
...white kerchiefs waving back and forth made languid light. 2. Langour. I lay back in the bucket seat, for the first time let a yellow boy kiss me and kiss...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...first appeared in The Northwest Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...within the United States, rather than members of an indigenous polity seeking to protect itself against an invading empire. In Jacksonland's strongest sections, Inskeep surveys the many ways Jackson merged...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...mountaintop removal mining (MTR) and its impact on Appalachian communities. Described as both a mobilizing effort and an opportunity for civil disobedience, the protest resulted in over one hundred arrests during...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...of the South. Since special issues on Natasha Trethewey and religion in the South are forthcoming, we are not currently reading manuscripts on these topics. We do not consider email...
Gravestones in Chester County, South Carolina and Wythe County, Virginia
William Simpson gravestone (1777), Stone Cemetery, Chester County, South Carolina, March 1996. Rear faces of gravestones carved by Laurence Crone, McGavock Family Cemetery, Fort Chiswell, Wythe County, Virginia, August 1978....
A Mess of Poke
...with a big hunk of cornbread crumbled in a tall glass of buttermilk. She didn’t eat the youngest, smallest leaves just because they were the tastiest. Poke is quite poisonous,...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
Introduction Opened in 1968, the Katherine plant was the last of four Springs cotton mills operating in Chester, South Carolina. Hughes and Hall captured these images shortly before the plant...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...suburbia's perceived artificiality, conformity, and sterility. Photographers from Paul Strand to Joel Meyerowitz capture and implicitly comment upon the iconic white picket fence. One tragedy of US homeownership is the...
Negotiating Black Identities
...the Speaker Karyn Lacy is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research include race and ethnicity, the sociology of culture, suburban sociology, and stratification....