"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...dialogue? Those who organize and participate in the annual reenactment argue passionately among themselves: Should performers strive for historical verisimilitude by wearing period-appropriate dress and deploying period-appropriate artifacts, including a...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...1956, a performer named J. D. Sumner recorded a song in "flamboyant black dialect" (99). The popular southern gospel group, The Statesmen, told racial jokes on stage during the height...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...so many of these people reach Kansas in poverty and suffering we should be untrue to our history…if we did not extend to them a cordial welcome.'"46Robert G. Athearn, In Search...
How I Shed My Skin
...ever, realistic and sorrowful, acknowledging the slow pace of change and the maudlin appeal of instant reconciliation. His meditation on genre morphs into a stunning dialectic on the individual and...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Mississippi of the Homosexual and the Politics of Dialectics," in Lonely Hunters: An Oral History of Lesbian and Gay Southern Life, 1948–1968 (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997). Sears's rhetorical move...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
Introduction Before Hurricane Katrina struck in late August of 2005, the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama had among the highest levels of race, class, and gender inequality...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...working, he was expressing concern about his neighbors' losing their jobs and their homes. Shuttered UMWA local union hall. Sundial, WV, 2005. The UMWA: The shuttered union hall is symptomatic of...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...essay is adapted from Horton's "Slavery in American History: An Uncomfortable National Dialogue," in James Oliver Horton & Lois E. Horton, Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...store-community relationship was reciprocal and dialectical, with each entity both supporting and being supported by the other. "Little Five Points Was Just Crawling with Lesbians" Atlanta's 1970s lesbian-feminist community was...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...