"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...modalities and transdisciplinary vocabularies for comparing creative works across the broader Caribbean. About the Author Aaron Witcher is a PhD Candidate in French and Francophone Studies at The Pennsylvania State...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Muskrat Line in 1955, it struggled to secure permission from landowners along the route. Judge Leander Perez, arch-segregationist political boss of Plaquemines Parish, was won over after Dailey Berard, a...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...School in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. Committed to preserving white supremacy at all costs, the angry mob hurled racist insults, glass bottles, and rocks toward the bus. Within a matter...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...a limited number of tunes. Singing schools emerged to teach lay-persons the basics of reading and performing music. These schools operated independently of any congregation or denomination and were run...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...were portrayed. Duval News Company, Old Slave Market, St. Augustine, Fla., Oldest City in the United States, c. 1915, recto. Collection of the Author. From "St. Augustine's 'Slave Market': A...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...August 23 to August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed though New Orleans, causing the levees to break, devastating a large part of the Crescent City. To mark the seventh anniversary...