"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...South. Vietnam is a prime example. "U.S. Covid-19 Cases," October 25, 2020. Cartoon by and courtesy of Mike Luckovich. Events turned US exceptionalism on its head; the nation's heralded public health...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...In the first skit, soldiers shot at Vietnamese peasants under orders, and had their medals ripped off when they questioned why. Next, police threw people to the ground and hurled...
Encountering COVID
...in a window, looking at her family two stories down, waving up at the window. That's powerful commitment. Growing up, my father was a soldier who went to Vietnam twice....
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...and policies and ordinary people's responses, experiences, and understandings of health and illness. Her current project examines the various protests against Agent Orange herbicides during and after the Vietnam War....
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...loved one they would never meet again. As at the adjacent Vietnam Veterans Memorial, one could imagine this exhibition space becoming a pilgrimage destination, where visitors leave objects, photographs, heirlooms,...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...sit-ins and commercial-bus freedom rides of 1960–1961. In later years, Campbell spoke eloquently against the Vietnam War, capital punishment, unregulated guns, overbearing government power, abortion on demand, and the invasion...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...memorial piece, a Vietnam Wall in cloth. With the spiraling tree in translucent overlay, fading body, and stark black and white palette, every element of this piece is stark and...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a white majority, using this bit of evidence: "I see whites, blacks, Vietnamese, Hispanics, and every other color on my street every day. We live in a community of many...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...also know the frayed and often misremembered history of AIDS stigma.4For more on AIDS and memory, see Marita Sturken, Tangled Memories: The Vietnam War, the AIDS Epidemic, and the Politics...