Good-Bye to All That?
...reluctantly come to believe that it's what most people want, or if that's not what they want, it's not very important to resist. I can understand the feeling. Watching Dancing...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
..."land of freedom and justice" (41). They argued that Kansas was a "worthy foil to the 'Negro-Hating South'" (72), even as they attacked the Exodusters. Pangs of conscience about the...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'" (1992, 105–6). As most commentary on...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...disruptive of past narratives that it compels you to rethink what you thought you knew. Also Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing. Lyrical, anger-inducing, and heartbreaking. This novel, this novel, this...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Mace generalizes, for example, that "readers in Seattle and Denver were somewhat sympathetic to the Till family, while readers in San Francisco were largely disinterested in the Till case" (124)....
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...place that allows for discussion of a wide range of black history that engages with the Civil War. It bothers me that there are no signs that can inform visitors...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...ways to buy into the false dichotomy that pits artistic performance against documentary, to suggest that art somehow makes reality false, and moreover that there is a recoverable pure, real,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1995): 38. "The United States was quite prosperous at that point, but east Kentucky wasn't and I had heard about that. . . . And I said,...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...