Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...willing to understand their way of life and to respect them as people who have something to offer in their way."28John Cohen, "Field-Trip – Kentucky," Sing Out!, vol. 10, no....
Encountering COVID
...you think that way? How can you think that way? It's Fox News. People have had it in their homes for so long. Fox was pitting us against each other,...
Brushes with War
...comparative vantage point, I hurried back up the marble steps of the Patent Office to explore the ways an earlier generation of American artists dealt with a brutal war on...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...boxes) between self and other even if the avatar-self often fulfills the estranged, "other" space in that formulation. In this way, although these apps have revolutionary capabilities and foster a...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...the end of a neighborhood street. Richard and Dot Beasley opened the Starlite in 1952. At one time, the theater competed with the Hiway, the Autodrome, and the Midway in...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...talks by saying "And away we go . . ." Perhaps it is better, for today's purposes, to say, "Here we are. . ." 2009 was a hard year for...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...away. "Ridding Georgia of this troublesome population" As white Georgians mapped and planned and purchased, Cherokees found ways to resist state policy and citizen aggression. Ross maintained a strategy of...