Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...the World (En ningún lugar del mundo). González Melo studied Theater Arts at the Universidad de las Artes de Cuba. He is the recipient of various prizes and awards for...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Louisville physician Dr. John Croghan.3The man sold alongside Bishop was known only as "Alfred." Two other well-known guides, Nicholas (Nick) Bransford and Materson (Mat) Bransford, were leased out to the...
"Aint that Something?"
...include Silas House, Ann Pancake, Amy Greene, and David Joy, among many others. Appalachian authors of color including Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacinda Townsend, and Frank X Walker dispel pervasive...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Congregation
Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755 Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here. National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...
Sea Changes in Personhood
Review While taking its cues from apparently minor literary events and artifacts, Ariel's Ecology: Plantations, Personhood, and Colonialism in the American Tropics is a major intervention in literary criticism, political...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...