LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...slavery into the sentimental bygone. Why buy a souvenir of slavery? In the years following Reconstruction, many northerners, explains historian Maurie McInnis, conceived the South as "a land of leisure...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...human efforts to control it. From Mark Twain to John McPhee, popular authors have portrayed the Mississippi River as a trickster, defying the expectations and hopes of those working and living on the...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/afc1982010_17556_10. Allen Tullos, senior editor: I've just read Daniel Kehlmann's novel Tyll, about a legendary trickster figure and courtly fool travelling in...
How I Shed My Skin
...situating prejudice in the here and now. This repertoire documents a cruel and pernicious counterpart to the long, affirmative tradition of African American trickster tales. With grace, Grimsley retells not...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
County White Alone, #, 2000 White Alone, %, 2000 Black Alone, #, 2000 Black Alone, %, 2000 Chattahoochee 8,643 58.08 4,453 29.92 Clay 1,290 38.43 2,030 60.47 Decatur 16,126...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...