Substantiation
...out on the street. Junkmen salvage metal, and the papers warp and tear in the rain. Starlings pick through the gutters' wreck and weave typescript fragments into their nests. Emmett...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...the genteel narrator. Harris gives us neither the reality nor the pretense of the manners and ethics of the South's literary mainstay, the southern gentleman. The well-educated, refined, righteous frame...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...
How I Shed My Skin
...sings alongside Violet, "proving that the separation between the races could one day be conquered" (225), systemic racism overcome by one-to-one biracial friendships. Instead, Grimsley as memoirist is frank as...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Vestibule
...hearts were so frail and callow. Truth: it was 1983; we were nineteen years old; we lay below the altar and preached a quiet sermon not just on the divinity...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...racism and oppression in post-secondary teaching, see Frank Tuitt et al., “Teaching in the Line of Fire: Faculty of Color in the Academy," The NEA Higher Education Journal (Fall 2019): 65–74;...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...