Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...and queer counter-narratives Queer(ing) ethics and morality Faith, religion, and spirituality Media and Genre Analyses Film and video (Queer Cinema) Literary studies Art, visual rhetoric, and representation Archives: reclamations and...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University. Question and Answer Session Part 2: Both poets answer a question about genealogy in African American poetry and...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...powerful addition to any advanced course in environmental history as well as in literature. Superlatives fail to describe David W. Blight's biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018), a rich...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...house; it's where I fell in love with a project member who lived here. It's how we know the geography of bars and cruising spaces that once littered the neighborhood,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...conversations. Ghost selfie, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Emma Lirette. They are conversations literally and figuratively. We talked to each other in the process of writing them, and we...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...by Beth Maynor Young. Reproduced by permission of the University of North Carolina Press. On the other hand, the authors spotlight some positive examples of longleaf management that are little...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...is relatively little research on the sizable metropolitan populations within the region. Does urbanization launder out culture? Does Appalachian culture flourish only when used as a tourism and commercial stimulus...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...away, yielded nothing. Not a clue. John Howard, Cemetery at Rowher, Arkansas, concentration camp, 2004. A full day after he'd gone AWOL, John Yoshida had gotten little further than a...