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...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...at variance with modern scholarship or sensibility. Moreover, it's hard to stifle winces when he slips into black dialect and other expressions of "affectionate paternalism." They are hard to miss...
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,...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Ashram, surrounded by panels of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt during a Pride month viewing and dialogue. Although it has travelled, you know the quilt is now housed in...
Writing Appalachia
...Irons, "Southern Literary Reconstructionists: Shaping Southern Literary Identity, 1895–1915" (Ph.D diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001). Hence, anthologists today (ourselves included) tend to view their collections as dialogues...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...the cruising area and those cruising may wish to avoid encountering them. At the same time, the text describes the officers as "very cordial in the stopping and questioning of...