Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...series represents "Parks'[s] consequential rethinking of the types of images that could sway public opinion on civil rights."3Maurice Berger, "With a Small Camera Tucked in My Pocket," in Gordon Parks,...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the way "southern literature" would be both marketed and received in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This quietly ambitious study reminds us that we cannot understand the phenomenon of nineteenth-century...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...way it did provide a glimpse into how the future of the South might play out, with or without separation." He writes on, summarizing his lessons from the three Georgia...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...five pillars of Wikipedia. (We also discussed, at length, the ways these pillars, which can seem impartial and good, are interpreted to constrict knowledge production and replicate racist, classist, and...
Mapping Souths
...tradition, heritage, culture, and identity. Put another way, we are still reproducing and naturalizing the South as place in an age defined, according to one story (Jameson's postmodern one), by...
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...
Scarecrow
"In a field I am the absence of field." — Mark Strand I. To Dorothy Everyone needs something to hang onto. It helps us keep the crows away. You...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...expressive art traditions. I am excited about the ways in which the archive may, in some small way, help to address these issues. There is also a wealth of potential...