Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...twenty years local groups in several US cities have conducted African ancestral remembrance ceremonies marking Middle Passage sites.3These cities include New York, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, Hampton, Virginia, Oakland,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...conventions mixed with popular memory, amateur and "professional" history, the study of folklore, and decades of activism by southern "heritage" societies. We know that this thing called the South—a new...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Ki" (The Problems of the Dalits) in a major Hindi daily published from New Delhi.2Samasyaen Daliton ki (The Problems of the Dalits), Rashtriya Sahara (New Delhi, India), 2000–2002. The public exchange that...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...a work that traces historical connections between New England Native intellectuals in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, arguing that we should understand their efforts in concert, not as isolated acts...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that will add new tensions and pose even more communication problems, but it can also make the field more dynamic and relevant to the region. Lower Price Hill Mural, Cincinnati,...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...in New York. Keeping a roof over your head was no small matter. I had a friend who lived in the trailer court, and I was worried about his domestic...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...