Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Overview Video https://vimeo.com/126188419 Poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers presents her poem “Tuscaloosa: Riversong,” July 29, 2005, beside the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Poem text. Part 2: Jeffers examines the river imagery in section five of “Tuscaloosa: Riversong” About the Poet An Alabama native, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is Assistant Professor of English at the University […]
Theories of Time and Space
Overview Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, thoughthere’s no going home.Everywhere you go will be somewhereyou’ve never been. Try this:head south on Mississippi 49, one-by-one mile markers ticking offanother minute of your life. Follow thisto its natural conclusion—dead endat the coast, the pier at Gulfport whereriggings of shrimp boats […]
Elegy for the Native Guards
Overview Poem https://vimeo.com/126188462?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci 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 […]
Negotiating Black Identities
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Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Overview Video Part 1a: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies https://vimeo.com/126304111?fl=pl&fe=ti Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies http://vimeo.com/126304825 Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies https://vimeo.com/126307780 Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies https://vimeo.com/126308071 Interested in submitting your work […]
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Overview Part 1: Dana White Atlanta’s urban growth from town to metropolis to megalopolis during the 20th century Part 2: Tim Crimmins Dr. Tim Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta’s physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Robert Holmes Dr. Robert Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race […]
No Place
Overview Video https://vimeo.com/126311162?fl=pl&fe=ti Cover Image Attribution Abandoned bridge over the Cahaba River, January 10, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user MK Hardy. Creative Commons license CC BY-ND 2.0. Pratt’s lecture “When I Say ‘Steal,’ Who Do You Think Of?” is also available on Southern Spaces. Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Sections