An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and that the urban model "incompletely and inadequately gets at the shape and scope of queer life."3Howard, Men Like That, 15. He suggests new models for understanding that queer life,...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...but that she was free to sell Ashley and other slaves from the Savannah River "Milberry" plantation, in southeastern Barnwell County, and that she, as executrix, was under urgent pressure...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...will double the size of the collections and will provide increased access to HathiTrust's nearly eleven million volumes. In addition, HathiTrust metadata records will be freely available under a Creative Commons license....
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...Campbells returned to the Deep South, where he served until the fall of 1954 as pastor of a church in Taylor, Louisiana. That time coincided with the run-up to what...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...evil." South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, revered by white Charlestonians, argued in 1837 that slavery was a "positive good" that benefited both masters and slaves (96). White Charlestonians seeking...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Chicago, and California, it is somewhat understandable that the national imaginary continues to picture LGBTQ+ people as living mostly in the urban centers of the North and West. What is...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and regret, knowing that the case that made them famous was a sham, muster their lives towards the righting of a single wrong. Rust and Marty know that this righting...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...of the makeshift agricultural economy as a household mode of production. Although he acknowledges that the agrarian household was a "coercive institution" (216), what he means by that is the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...that Petrie could analyze samples of soil from her property, so that she could prove, once and for all, what had been sprayed on it—and what was making her sick....