Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) and Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008)....
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...and other groups in successfully blocking a Japanese plastics manufacturer from locating a large, polluting polyvinyl chloride factory near Convent, Louisiana. Foregrounding the place-based resistance movements that the petrochemical and...
How I Shed My Skin
...Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow (2008) and Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (1999), both from the University of Chicago Press. Jim Grimsley is professor of practice in...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...from similar latitudes in China and Japan. In March 2016, a 140-year-old white oak tree that had served as the shady anchor of Gainey's Decatur garden fell on his house....
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...