The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...that Southern Spaces also continues to accept submissions on a rolling basis. For details, see our submission guidelines. From The Southern Quarterly: Celebrating fifty years of publication, The Southern Quarterly:...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...concerned about the neighborhood. I also noticed a broken window on the side that faces Lakeside which looked like it could possibly have been made by a bullet. Is that...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...for a number of months at Arlington House, explained that visitors sometimes took her aside to ask in hushed tones, "Were there really slaves here?" She also observed that some...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Enough Blues.” Mitchell: Yeah. Jim Bunkley: I [laughter] that’s right. He played that. Mitchell: Can you play that one now? Jim Bunkley: I, I know I can’t get that together...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...medium through which my art finds expression and the subject matter that it articulates. I know that the quilt form usually is associated with feelings of warmth, comfort, serenity and...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...That is what I do. I just happen to like to photograph in wetlands because that’s my native environment. That's my native landscape. I grew up in Clearwater on the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...exist that question how photography frames Appalachia: what is contained and what excluded. This effort dates back to some of those images of the FSA Photographic Unit. As Marion Post...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...He eventually made his way to the railroad tracks, focusing on that potent symbol of Japanese American imprisonment. It was by train that Yoshida and his family had been shipped,...