The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...The impact of the X (which I assumed at the time to mark a structure for demolition) was powerful—were these homes and lives being X'd out? What about those who...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...the halls of representation or rendered a static character there, to imagine a world where queer lives, politics, and possibilities are representable in their complexity."71José Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...continued to live in the area.4Newton County, Georgia—created December 24, 1821, from Henry, Jasper, and Walton Counties—was based in three ceded Native territories. Under the terms of the 1805 Treaty...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of every human wo [sic] and misery."37"Death of John M. Barrett, Esq." Perhaps because Barrett never lived to see a resolution to his case and died while still professing his...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...comprehend the horrendous injustice of slavery, the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, the stealing of their lives from them, and then the theft of their labor for hundreds...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...resort to an ultimate solution, the disrespect for life, the ruination of both mens' lives, the danger to family and friends. Jazz Funeral for Anthony "Tuba Fats" Lacen The day...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...About the Author Emma Lirette, originally from Chauvin, Louisiana, lives outside Atlanta with her wife and two daughters. She works as a User Experience Researcher in social media and holds...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...a "horror show" at the expense of portraying the inner lives of slaves and the relationships they forged under totalitarian circumstances, but in doing so it does not ally itself...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Jews. Since the colonial era, Jews and Gentiles had lived in relatively peaceful coexistence in the South. Latent prejudice toward Jews nonetheless surfaced in times of social and economic upheaval,...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...toiling in this county, who lived on the other side of paradise. They built this town and this college, going all the way back to slavery times. . . They...