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,...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...identifying queer subjects as intelligible, fixed beings to asking the critical questions: To queer what? Where? When? What do, or should, we queer and why? With the series "Queer Intersections...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...point of the lynching back then in '46. The police came by that night of the lynching and ordered all the colored people off the streets. That's just what they...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...that day I really had to think what a white man felt like, driving that car, taking our people to their deaths. Really made me think, you know?” The Moore’s...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...hog and they'd take the livers and lights and all like that and make hash. They'd have a frolic and sell that hash to the people that came to dance.'"13Fussell,...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...that she didn't know very much about what to order for gay men or lesbians. Barbara felt they knew exactly what they were doing: they were providing books for people...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...quick to warn that dwelling on the modern defenders of the erstwhile slave society (touting "heritage not hate") or lingering on "explicit racial hierarchies that defined Jim Crow era" should...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...and livelihood and reparations from the corporations that used and abused them for so long. Maybe that can be the basis for a positive political identity.1For an argument in favor...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...blood carried "outrageously high" levels of the class of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, manufactured by Monsanto, and that the soil in her yard contained PCB levels "above what the...