The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...what the publicity (and controversy) around Ruth’s life story offers the study of queer memory in southern spaces. Ruth’s career as an AIDS caregiver and activist began with a case...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
Review When I saw a note about Chuck Thompson's new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession, I had to take a look. From the title...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the South's Public Schools." Southern Spaces, April 16, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/crisis-new-majority-low-income-students-souths-public-schools. ———. "The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation." Southern Spaces, June 29, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/worst-times-children-extreme-poverty-south-and-nation....
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...of Microsoft Word documents to SouthernQuarterly@gmail.com are preferred over postal delivery. About the Journal: The Southern Quarterly is an internationally-known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts...
Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Photograph by unknown creator. Originally published in Julian Rankin's Catfish Dream. Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Scott made miracles in the cotton field, not far from Fannie Lou Hamer's visionary Freedom...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...peoples, in such projects as the collection she co-edited with Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...From 1865 to the present, two starkly contrasting histories of slavery have competed in Charleston, South Carolina, the setting for Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...sheeting from raw cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills (now Springs Global) in Chester, South Carolina in 2006. About the Photographer Pressly Hall is a professional freelance photographer...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Exposition in 1895. The popular attraction was purchased by the Lakewood Park Company and moved to Lakewood Park in southern Fulton County before the start of the 1896 park season."...