Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...diverse and plural."24Ghaziani, "Cultural Archipelagos," 7. Though my mapping project did not visualize cruising areas, the research behind it did surface many narratives of cruising. Analyzing these cruising narratives in...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...political protest and grassroots activism as African Americans directed their attention to the problems of urban renewal, deindustrialization, employment discrimination, and the housing crisis. A corner named after the gospel...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...this prevailing proposition, exploring how the Games were constructed in popular discourses and how civic boosters' desire for Atlanta's international notoriety was juxtaposed with its history as a southern space....
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...line between dissident discourse and advertisement. This is not to say that Beyoncé's discourse is invalidated by this antagonism, nor that one can totally disengage from the "workings of Power,"...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009). If discovered in such venues, military personnel faced certain punishment, if not discharge.16Gohlke, "Off-Limits." A native white Texan and...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
..."National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Eatonville Historic District," September 9, 1997, https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/e5fa60c5-551d-41d3-bbef-2a52ff3a7b0b. Eatonville was a fully developed town featuring a bustling business district, churches, and one of the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...its entrenched positions within cannon range of Atlanta, and the Confederate Army of Tennessee had lost a tenth of its fighting strength.2Gary Ecelbarger, The Day Dixie Died: The Battle of...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Prizant (University of Miami Press, 2010).1There are two different translations. William Gregory translated both Kiddo and Nevada; Yael Prizant translated the trilogy in a bilingual version with a different press...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...in a rule's impact on members of different racial or ethnic groups"—not if a disparity exists, but how large the disparity is. In this way, the opinion suggests that the...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Putting Up Beans." Poem text. An Interview with Allison Hedge Coke Part 2: Coke discusses “Packin’ Four Corner Nabs,” a poem about working in a...