Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...as I can, the big whoosh of souls upward at the Rapture, when clay and ocean, dust and pit, yield up their dead, when all elements reassemble into forms of...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...way to compose, to transform the world into an image, to confront the temporal luminance before us in an otherwise dimming day. There is a recognizable evil tyranny in assuming...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...long-form interpretive and critical pieces result from extended scholarly engagement with a topic, frequently breaking new ground in critical regional studies, African American, Native, and American Studies, women's and gender...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...to this video collection to create Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, foregrounding the musical contributions captured in the initial exchange. The Strange Creek Singers perform at Onllwyn Miners' Welfare...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...crime-ridden underworld of Atlanta in 1948. The city is on the cusp of a civil rights movement that will transform it politically, socially, and spatially. By following the travails of...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...limiting human potential. So, yes, it seemed right to "appropriate the name and conventions of Western opera … while hybridizing them with other forms of musical theater, such as Caribbean carnival...
Bricking the Church
...back when they set their minds and savings to it. They wanted to assert its form and presence if not in stone at least in hardened earth, urban weight, as...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...Romantic landscapes of Ansel Adams and others. By the 1970s, Evans's photographs made with a large format camera seemed out of step with a post-civil rights movement South where even...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a patchwork of nutria fur and tacked-on tusks—the bricolage of an odd filmmaker and an even odder child's imagination. Beasts works through two additional forms of myth making. First, while...