Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...wherever we see it perpetuate itself."4Azeezat Johnson, "An Academic Whiteness: White Supremacy Within and Beyond Academia," in The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence, ed. Azeezat...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Times Book Review as "original, startling," and by Publishers Weekly as "hard-edged and provocative," dealing "directly and explicitly with issues of anger, shame, sexuality, and injustice." Reviewer Joy Parks in...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Work
...and to write full time. At the age of forty-nine, she became a grandmother and published author, when What Travels With Us, her first book of poems, was released by...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...birth and growth of Appalachian Studies in higher education, the 2010s have seen a reduction and withdrawal of support for them. The time has come to engage in more systematic...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Aftermath
I think by now it is time for the second cutting. I imagine the field, the one above the last house we rented, has lain in convalescence long enough. The...
Geography
...from each time: a man pining for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead on a slab at St. James. I’m too young to know this is foreshadowing. To get away...