Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
[author_affiliation] On March 15, 2016, acclaimed printmaker Amos Kennedy, Jr. participated in a public conversation about his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking 3-D format, Kennedy also creates posters featuring tongue-in-cheek phrases about southern […]
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
[author_affiliation] Overview Beginnings How did you become involved with Southern Spaces? Halbert: I was involved in the inception of Southern Spaces and can shed some light on the endeavors that led to the creation of this marvelous and innovative new vehicle for scholarly communication. A fascinating and unpredictable journey through accidents and sagacity took us […]
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
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Zircon
[author_affiliation] Overview Poem Zircon When my great-uncles dug for zircons onthe mountainside and on the pasture hilla hundred years ago they’d no ideathe little crystal bit they sought would bea token from the planet’s fiery birth.For zircons are almost as old as earth’screation in the conflagration fromdebris that formed the galaxies of suns.This tiny stone […]
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
[author_affiliation] “The Nation and the Negro” is one of the most striking images from What Must Be Remembered in its visual representation of the lived experience of the international slave trade and its depiction of slavery as “catalyst [and] economic juggernaut for US development.”1Pellom McDaniels III, interview with author, December 14, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. […]
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
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Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
[author_affiliation] Overview Southern Spaces is proud to launch a fresh design for our journal today, stage one in a two-stage rollout of our newly redeveloped publishing platform. The new design emphasizes visual clarity, readability, richer multimedia, and a mobile-friendly responsive layout. The new site also introduces a dynamic, open source journal publishing platform constructed with […]
Authorship in Africana Studies
[author_affiliation] Overview Joan Anim-Addo: Traveling with Imoinda This presentation raises questions primarily concerning art, authorship, and to a much lesser extent, critique, specifically in relationship to my libretto Imoinda or She Who Will Lose Her Name, written in 1997. The piece received a rehearsed reading in 1998 and was first published in 2003. Considering the art involved in […]
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
[author_affiliation] Overview Antonio Valor. Character drawing by Dawud Anybwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is one of the new acquisitions. Philadelphia brothers […]
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
[author_affiliation] Overview Welcoming Comment from Natasha Trethewey Natasha Trethewey, Welcoming Comment, 2014. About the Speaker Natasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer-Prize winning poet (Native Guard, Mariner Books, 2006) and former poet laureate of the United States (2012–2014). She directs the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Many of her poems first appeared in various forms in […]