Tuscaloosa: Riversong
Overview Video Part 2: Jeffers examines the river imagery in section five of “Tuscaloosa: Riversong” Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February 7, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Similar Publications Sections
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 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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Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Overview Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Interested in submitting your work to Southern Spaces? Similar Publications Sections
Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Overview Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta’s physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia’s Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations Interested in submitting […]
No Place
Overview Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt‘s books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990), Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt’s lecture […]