Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...however, Houston's locally produced queer press offers suggestive evidence that cruising areas had begun to shift into the Montrose neighborhood. One such piece ran in the first issue (1965) of...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...for illicit marijuana use, New Orleans offers an excellent case study for testing prominent aspects of the existing historiography. Given what we now know about marijuana's effects, there is certainly...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...at Appalachia each photograph speaks to "Appalachia" in its own way, while commenting upon the reality that other images purport. Looking at Appalachia offers a mosaic of disparate images in...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...my extensive collection. This accompanying text offers some thoughts about the significance of these shrines. These handmade memorials were erected to honor loved ones who died near or on a...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...environment. Lacking an easy path, upgrading required a substantial investment of time and resources. As an open source platform with a large and active user base, Drupal offers flexibility, and...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...affiliated with the Homecoming Series, Close Harmony offers an overly optimistic view of southern gospel prospects in the twenty-first century (283–287). For the past fifteen years or so, professional southern...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...just that—an image, a superficial obscuration rather than an actually existing reality.16Davis offers little help here, noting, "The Fugitives' rural iconography is made obsolete by the sound of the bulldozers building more...
Glocal Lounge
...regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. Perhaps our blog can serve as a...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...the eastern shore with various masters) offers a glimpse into this history.28Walter Johnson's Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001) examines the New Orleans...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...part of the reason why. Nevertheless, McLemore's unique story still offers a rich opportunity to examine the complex dynamics of sexuality, gender, race, and class at the fringes of the...