Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...as a free-lance reporter. He was a contributing editor for Saturday Review of Education (1972-1973), Race Relations Reporter (1973–1974), and Southern Voices (1974–1975). From 1973–1975, he was a writer for...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...permanent (1565) European/African/Native American settlement on US territory. The inclusion of the forty–six free and enslaved Africans who arrived on Spanish ships at the first landing on August 28, 1565,...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...for free in an easy to install form. As we proudly launch our new design today we look forward to sharing our open source journal-in-a-box distribution in the days to...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...botany and cultural study. The completed documentary, "The Well-Place Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey," is available for free viewing on Vimeo. About the Author Steve Bransford completed his...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...while they often performed difficult and dangerous work, both black and white longshoremen enjoyed steady employment at a decent wage. Life as a longshoreman also offered a degree of freedom...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Kentucky, or Pat Jarret's photograph of the Freedom Industries' chemical spill site in Charleston, West Virginia (Figures 21, 22). Other "natural settings" alter these frames: does Amanda Greene's North Georgia...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...explained in his 1993 book The Well-Placed Weed from which our documentary takes its title. Gainey's gardens feature a fascinating give-and-take between the structured and the free-flowing. Looking into Ryan...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
Introduction by Emma Lirette Saltwater Intrusion, Chauvin, Louisiana, 2013. Photograph by Kurt Lirette. Courtesy of photographer. Growing up in Louisiana meant growing up with the men in my family intermittently...