Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...“Liminal Legality”; James Smith,“Guatemala: Economic Migrants Replace Political Refugees” Migration Policy Institute, Migration Information Source (April 2006) http://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/guatemala-economic-migrants-replace-political-refugees/. This first wave of migrants from war-torn Guatemala initially settled in Los...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...campos profesionales en Guatemala.5Allan F. Burns, Maya in Exile: Guatemalans in Florida (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993); Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New...
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...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Carolina and his return home to Durango, Mexico. Brother Towns examines the lives of migrant day workers and the receptions they receive moving between Jacaltenango, Guatemala, and Jupiter, Florida. In...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...markings, 2007. The location of the code on a building was often an indication of when in the progress of the flood a search had been conducted. A code...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
Introduction I left Guatemala May 28. I had problems crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican officials threw me back eight times but I kept trying. They tried to get me...
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,...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...at Florida International University. His first book, Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, explores John Sewell's 1933 notion of Florida as "a playground for the Nation" specifically through his...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
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...