Negotiating Gender Lines: Women’s Movement across Atlanta Mosques
[author_affiliation] Overview Introduction The city of Atlanta has a reputation of promise and opportunity in the American ummah (the Islamic brotherhood and sisterhood), particularly for African American Muslims. Indeed, many leave cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia to join the Atlanta ummah, known for its African American Muslim professionals, its progressive African American mosque communities, […]
Anniversary
[author_affiliation] Overview Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem “Anniversary.” Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem “Consolation.” Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem “Darkly.” Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem “Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road.” Poem text. Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Similar Publications […]
Tuskegee University, Tuskegee Alabama, 2003
Rising Up
Video Community Ideas Station, Excerpt from Rising Up, 2005.
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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The Civil Rights Archive
[author_affiliation] 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
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
[author_affiliation] 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 […]
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
[author_affiliation] 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 […]
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
[author_affiliation] Overview Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin, Moody, Welty, and Walker, highlighting attention to the local Part 4: Gwin recounts how Evers’s death spurred Baldwin, as emissary to Mississippi and […]
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
[author_affiliation] 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 […]