"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa
People frequently experience Tuscaloosa, Alabama, as the home of the University of Alabama and its sports teams, or a series of well-marked exits that they pass as they barrel down...
Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward
...26, 2018, https://time.com/5349517/jesmyn-ward-my-true-south/ In Ward’s autobiographical writing, descriptions of Mississippi manifesting global social and economic systems are then followed with ruminations on her particular experience.9In “My True South,” Mississippi is, for Ward, family,...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
Presentation https://vimeo.com/171940774 Question and Answer Session https://vimeo.com/174834636 About the Speaker George Philip LeBourdais is a PhD candidate in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. His research...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/highlighting-charlestons-african-american-history-through-lowcountry-digital-history-initiative. Bransford, Steve, Michael Page, and Anthony Martin. "St. Catherines Island Flyover." Southern Spaces, July 14, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/st-catherines-island-flyover. Hagood, Taylor. "The Digital Yoknapawtawpha Project." Southern Spaces, January 22, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/digital-yoknapatawpha-project....
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review https://vimeo.com/134247004?fl=ls&fe=ec 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...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...to his lips / If I were a bee / Because he's sweeter than chocolate candy to me / He's confectionery."25"Billie Holiday—Sugar," YouTube, accessed June 30, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UajeQsQrRA&feature=kp. The intersection...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
Introduction Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 10, 2005. Photograph by Brian Gauvin. Coded markings indicate the structural instability of this home in the Lower Ninth Ward, washed from...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
Blog post In a case decided on the grounds of religious freedom, the US Supreme Court took another big step on June 30 in supporting religious discrimination in publicly financed...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...of being so resilient. Pero, love beats here. —Maya Chinchilla, “Church at Night”10Maya Chinchilla, “Church at Night,” GLQ 24, no. 1 (2018), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-4254387. Solomon: I thought we’d end with...