Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...locating their poems in specific historical and social sites. There is, I argue, a red thread of American poetry that has consistently and productively represented race as a spatial rather...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...returning from rural sites in Mississippi, Koya found the hotel fully booked. He decided to take a short trip to Nashville to see an acquaintance, Robert Nail, a church elder...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...is a rural, agricultural county located in mountainous, northwestern North Carolina. Throughout its history, the county's rugged terrain has prevented easy access to outlying cities such as Asheville or Knoxville....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...study the National Park Service commissioned on LGBTQ historic sites. I contributed a chapter on Miami that narrated existing (surviving) physical sites. This work challenged me to think very differently...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...crowd: a mixed humanity of international tourists, locals, white and black visitors, children, art students, and elderly couples. They enter running into the grotto to escape the storm and drafty...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...rural legislators to support vouchers. It also camouflages the severe fiscal impact this scheme will have on routinely underfunded public schools after the special federal funds run out. The states...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...version of "Louis Collins." Likewise, the image of a "rubber-tired buggy, decorated horse" appears frequently in similar songs, such as "Frankie and Albert" and Blind Willie McTell's "Delia": Rubber-tired buggy,...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...a critical mass in New Orleans. He believed marijuana "was as habit forming as morphine or cocaine" and that "constant smoking will ruin the health."12"New Drug Habit Rapidly Growing, Health...