Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...recollected bridges across Bayou St. John had disappeared. Street signs were nonexistent or homemade Traffic signals dangled uselessly or had been swept from tangled utility wires. The potholed streets were...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...evolved to include hanky codes, gay bar and bathhouse secret codes, and other gendered and sexualized forms of inclusion or exclusion. In a letter to the editor published in NEWSWEST,...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...use of imagery has critiqued, promoted, and problematized the idea of the South and its rap music culture. Rap and Place Perhaps the most remarkable dimension of the Dirty South...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...is a cultural production, a site whose significance lies in the multilayered interactions of tourists, tour providers, scientists and other visitors, and the body of cultural works about the cave...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...too. We joined efforts. They brought design and carpentry skills, and I had an existing building that would serve as a fine henhouse. Since 2004, we have shared the costs,...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...scholarly design team for the AmericanSouth project that was led by Martin and on which I served as project manager. We were studying how to unite materials from disparate archives...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
Introduction In an elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, Mexican children ask, “Where were the Hispanics with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis?” An Egyptian girl at the same school wonders...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...Houston, MCA installed signs prohibiting vehicles from making turns between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. in the Montrose area. These no-turn signs restricted those cruising by car from circling legally...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...understated design "reflects the way the street was originally developed," incorporating local history into the corridor.18Crane Urban Design Team and Austin Revitalization Authority, "New Visions of East Austin: Central East...