Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...another instance of a form of southern environmental injustice whose total ramifications have rarely been adequately acknowledged or addressed. In Spears's work, Anniston's story, alongside many other stories of those...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...a hard time beginning in a plural voice. Also, his voice has previously appeared on the Southern Spaces blog. go film as part of my fieldwork. I propped myself up...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...3-D format, Kennedy also creates posters featuring tongue-in-cheek phrases about southern cultures and identities. In 2014, Southern Spaces published a blog post about Kennedy's "Burnt Church," an artist book inspired by a series...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...pre-Civil War plantation sites. Map detailing the geography of St. Catherines Island and St. Catherines Sound. Map courtesy of Steve Bransford, Anthony Martin, and Michael Page. Screenshot courtesy of Southern...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...which represent places in the US South—have become seared into the southern imaginary. Calling up associations of segregation and depression-era rural poverty, the photographs both tie the present-day South to...
Work
...facility. She received a BA in American Studies with a concentration in Southern Folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She served as an arts and education...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...sophistication should come from a small Southern town,” Michael Lachowski, bassist for Pylon, told the Washington Post in 1984. This sense of surprise worked in favor of early Athens bands,...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
Video and Essay https://player.vimeo.com/video/269927353?byline=0&portrait=0 Ryan Gainey with cut flowers, Decatur, Georgia, ca. 1993. Photograph by David Schilling. Ryan Gainey (1944–2016) grew up in the Sandhills of South Carolina in the...
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
Introduction Since coming to Mississippi in 1999, most of my photographic energies have gone into making images of the social and cultural landscapes of the rural and small-town South. During...