Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...African descent from the African continent and its diasporas. I have been asked to speak on the theme "Archiving Africana" with an eye towards helping you rediscover Africana archives as...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...(168–169). Who knew southern gospel was punk? The Cultural Origins of White Southern Gospel Then Sings My Soul focuses on the culture of white southern gospel music while acknowledging the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...wages ("Tallapoosa County, Alabama: Civil War Pension"). But in the renewed onslaught of reaction in the South—where lynching of African American men and the rape of African American women became...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...southern literature as a phenomenon. African American writers and Harlem Renaissance figures other than the most famous of the untoward—Zora Neale Hurston—chose to identify themselves as southern while some, wary...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...as much as the pleasures of outdoor leisure. An invisible line along Central had already divided the city into north (white) and south (African American) sides. African Americans moved to...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...in Hoboken-style Sacred Harp or the Primitive Baptist churches frequented by many singers.9John Crowley, Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South, 99-105. Increasingly after the Civil War African Americans formed separate...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...the North. Historian Brett Gadsden describes Delaware as "a provincial hybrid, one in which ostensibly southern and northern modes of race relations operated."30Brett Gadsden, Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation,...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...what the publicity (and controversy) around Ruth’s life story offers the study of queer memory in southern spaces. Ruth’s career as an AIDS caregiver and activist began with a case...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...from "critical and contingent methods and theories" and "more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns." Doing southern studies is unmasking and refusing the binary thinking—"North"/"South," nation/South, First World/Third World,...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...the US and Global South, edited by Dr. Mary E. Frederickson. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Mary Ann Robertson at seditor@emory.edu. See the Southern Spaces...