Inside Poor Monkey's
...that is often referred to as a "tin." It is windowless, but has three doors. The front sports several faded, hand-painted signs. One describes the dress code by saying "not...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...domain. Legend: Green: "Best"; Blue: "Still Desirable"; Yellow: "Definitely Declining"; Red: "Hazardous"; Grey: "Negro Concentrations"; Crosshatched Lines: "Commercial and Industrial"; Diagonal Lines: "Undeveloped." The imperative that a black man must...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...ironic thing: this happened several months ago, and the house still sits there empty." —An anonymous resident. Names have been changed. John Howard, Street's end, Henry County, Georgia, November 2009....
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...be accepted, or at least tolerated. Atlanta Gay Rights Alliance and others leading the Pride parade, Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 1977. Atlanta-Journal Constitution courtesy of Georgia State University Library. Even...
Encountering COVID
...grid, a mosaic, to do a representation of the US as best I could. We talked about that, too. Q: How did you organize your project? And, to get a...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Koya’s trip to several states in the US South—Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, and North Carolina—and explores his observations of race relations in the United States with regard to public...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...of what was then called “college radio” to name the best early 1980s band from Athens, Georgia. Many folks will insist on the most famous band to emerge from this...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
Introduction Map marking Walton County, Georgia For the past half decade I have been fascinated and puzzled by an extraordinary annual event, a reenactment each late July of the horrific...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...Georgia. In his interesting but not entirely successful study of non-Native participants in the southeastern deerskin trade, Paulett uses the word "mapping" to convey their processes of coming to know...