A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
Overview Review Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 17–May 13, 2007ARC/ Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, France, June 20–September 9, 2007Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 11, 2007–February 3, 2008UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, March 2–June 8, 2008 “It’s interesting that as soon as you start telling the story of racism, […]
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005.
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta’s African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
Overview Introduction I left Guatemala May 28. I had problems crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican officials threw me back eight times but I kept trying. They tried to get me the last time but I jumped off a train and fell down a riverbank and they couldn’t catch me. I was in the army […]
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Overview Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy Part 3: Womack contrasts Posey’s stories of racial/ethnic interdependency with the contemporary reality in the Creek Confederacy Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? […]
Deep Ellum Blues
Overview Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it has been a place where products are financed, brokered, and transported: leather and buffalo hides in the first place, followed by cotton and oil, […]
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour’s “The Mulatto”
Overview Introduction A little-known story first translated into English in 1995 by Philip Barnard for The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, “Le Mulâtre” (“The Mulatto”) by Victor Séjour (1817–1874), a New Orleans free man of color, was initially published in the March 1837 issue of Cyrille Bisette‘s Parisian abolitionist journal La Revue des Colonies. […]
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
Overview African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew primarily through new home construction during the post war period Part 4: Dr. Wiese refers to postwar growth on Atlanta’s west side to illustrate how […]
Inside Poor Monkey’s
Overview Introduction Poor Monkey’s sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for generations. Monkey’s is the only surviving sharecropper shanty on this land, although there are remains of a few others nearby. In the early 1950s, […]
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Overview Video Constance Curry is the author of Silver Rights (1995) which won a Lillian Smith Book Award. Other publications co-authored or edited by Curry include The Fire Ever Burning (2000, with Aaron Henry); Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (2000); Captive Lives (2000); a special issue of the journal […]