Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Congress Geography and Map Division, 2004626926. Henry Popple, A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto, 1733. Library of Congress Geography and...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...viewer—short-circuit both homonormative assumptions about sexuality and gay identity and metronormative assumptions about sex and homophobia in the rural South. Anecdotally, I've heard from a goodly number of southern gay...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Center in the city's Central Business Disrict to the Governor Nicholls Wharf at the downriver end of the French Quarter. Along its length, one finds the Aquarium of Americas, the...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...line, a significant number for such a rural area. The ultra-conservative Crawfordites sought to continue most practices “as in the time of Uncle Reuben.” Since their formation in the 1870s,...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...hands, and ultimately, lives, in the plantation machinery of sugar-cane slavery and sugar processing as though in a sacrifice devoid of sacredness and rituals. French philosopher Claude-Adrien Helvetius proclaims in...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...played out in the Mississippi Valley. The French relied on an itinerant population and relationships with powerful Native groups, while the Spanish and British constructed more closely regimented landscapes. Powell...