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...
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...
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...
Negotiating Black Identities
...of racial identities in the suburbs through interracial marriage and college attendance Part 4: Dr. Lacy discusses the relevance of Black spaces and places to middle-class suburban Blacks Part 5:...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Dreams': Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future." Southern Spaces, August 29, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/rebuilding-land-dreams-expressive-culture-and-new-orleans-authentic-future. Trethewey, Natasha. "Congregation." Southern Spaces, September 9, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/congregation. Weber, Lynn. "No Place To Be Displaced:...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...and the process of assembling the book, One Place. Part 3: A discussion of Kwilecki photographs that reveal insider-outsider tensions in Decatur County. Part 4: Kwilecki's subjects and the continuity...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
Tarsus, Alabama It takes a while to find the place where I can hold the photograph and the mountain will finish itself, and a while until I'll let it drop...