Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...the transparency of film and replaces this with a performative exchange between subjects, filmmakers/apparatus and spectators."11Stella Bruzzi, New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2000): 6. When our own...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...young migrant worker had raped a white woman, the mob doused him in oil and burned him alive. Anti-American riots broke out across Mexico following news of the lynching and...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...in their code of conduct: they require citations. Their references and recommended resources sections aggregate online materials, provding users with a range of further reading. They also seem to be...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...History of Environmental Racism in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2015); Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York, The New Press, 2020). deals with the first hundred years of Georgia's Central State Hospital in Milledgeville...
Encountering COVID
Michelle Fishburne and her dog Buddy outside of their RV. White Sands National Park, New Mexico. February 2021. Photograph courtesy of author. Southern Spaces: Oh, here's Michelle now. Are you...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Theory: Key Writings that Formed the Movement (New York: The New Press, 1995), 376. Crenshaw describes the importance of "intersectionality" to the experiences of black women, specifically, but her insights...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in the Urban Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Bob Darden, People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music (New York: Bloomsbury, 2004); Anthony Heilbut, Gospel Sound:...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Shirt: Terror After the Civil War (New York: Penguin Group, 2008); LeeAnna Keith, The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of White Power, Black Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction (New...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...for him with a malignant air and the negro lost no time in taking himself away. After that he knew his place."12J. E. Johnson, "Siamese Twins," in Mount Airy News,...