Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of Africa, in the development of people, in that which is true and good." Biggers believed Ampofo embodied "the New Africa," linking the continent's past with its future through his...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...extract themselves from the heavy hand of BIA officials. By wisely investing federal funds, they launched the "Choctaw Miracle." Today, the Mississippi Choctaws are among the most successful of Indian...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Atlanta's T-SPLOST Referendum and Atlanta Studies
Today Southern Spaces published Edward A. Hatfield's essay "A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate," which surveys the challenges of transportation planning in the Atlanta metro region...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...last shadows, as the people thin, I see a dark woman humming. It could be 1945, or it could be today. She’s headed home, humming some songs she thinks I...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the southern segregation who knew nothing of slavery, of how people of the African diaspora had once been owned as property. I was a child of the U. S. during...
Piedmont Blues
Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...
The Crowd He Becomes
...the paperboys, ready to throw when the dark is right. See him Christmas, few years back, outside the preacher's house, thin fuse of cigarette, newspaper spread on the bus protests....
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...reveal the power held by Indians in cross-cultural communication. Once Cahokia collapsed—before European arrival—a new social geography emerged, still defined by chiefdoms, but where power was more diffuse and communication...