Elegy for the Native Guards
Overview Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their bloodStiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . .—Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon; gulls overheadtrailing the boat—streamers, noisy fanfare—all the way to Ship Island. What we seefirst is the fort, its roof of grass a lee—half reminder of the […]
Negotiating Black Identities
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Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
Overview A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them and have introduced them to the reader at the appropriate moments. The essay is intended as a multimedia and hypertextual analysis and is argued […]
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Overview Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 4: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 5: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern […]
The Civil Rights Archive
Overview Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State’s Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Similar Publications Sections
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Overview Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its Black community reveals the constraints and opportunities that characterized Atlanta’s development as the leading city of the New South. Born a railroad terminus in […]
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
Overview Introduction: Defining the Subject “The problem of the twentieth century,” W. E. B. Du Bois wrote one hundred years ago, “is the problem of the color-line.” He was referring to the worldwide hierarchy of race that places lighter people over darker people. As educator, writer, and political activist he dedicated his life to the […]
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
Overview Adrienne Herndon (1869–1910) Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. “It is simply inevitable that I should end up on the stage,” Adrienne stated in 1904 just before her Boston debut as a dramatic reader. “The footlights have beckoned me since I was a little child and I simply must respond. […]
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Overview Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as “Anti-Tom novels,” written implicitly or explicitly to counter the negative view of the South that Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) popularized with such amazing force. Even before her novel […]
Local Color
Overview Local Color Local Color as a literary genre bears the full weight of the concept of region, for its typical stories and sketches offer highly particularized visions of “locale” that are “colored” by regionally defined characters, settings, folkways, and dialects. The paradox, and thus the richness, of this often discounted form lies in the […]