Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...of active reception. Why do we keep reviving and repremiering the classics? Because their essence, rather than the argument, lies in how the specific story is told today in the...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...singers. Today the singing also attracts members of singing communities in northeast Alabama, metro Atlanta, and further afield: singers in 2019 had traveled from New York City and Dublin, Ireland,...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...the time, there is this idea: we are going to say what our actual experience is in our poems, and we are not coding it. The code will be the...
Palomares Bajo
...were thoroughly othered, marked as "racially different." Their "miserable and abandoned hamlet" was contradictorily said to be "inhabited by dark-skinned gypsies and by descendants of the Moor[s]," a coded reference...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...America today"—praise that would please a writer who resists regional labels. Reviewer Alan Heathcock lauded Gautreaux's "invention of clever, out of the ordinary conflicts" and "his ability to render true...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...follow the mandate of a federal court to permit black citizens to register to vote, Alabama's new governor declared: "Today I have stood, where once Jefferson Davis stood, and took...
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...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...discriminatory treatment of African Americans (and women, Indians, and Hispanics) is richly documented. A pattern emerged across the South in FHA offices during the 1950s and 1960s. Sometimes the supervisor...