"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...when referencing patrons of these bars because Weathers specified that lesbian was not used in the gay San Antonio scene when she was there. Brenda Weathers with friends (left to...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...including the Chicago Defender, Jet, and Afro World. In the 1960s, SNCC used the photograph on posters to promote voting rights in Mississippi. More recently, it was used in the...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...however, a permanent photography staff was expensive and unnecessary; they continued to use local firms like the Burgert Brothers. As a result, the archives of these firms are unique documents...
Cajun South Louisiana
...speakers as English among Louisianas free population; by 1860, 70 percent of Louisianas free population spoke English. 1800s Language change was part of a broader process of Acadian acceptance of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...to William Faulkner, and not because the songwriters in the band and the author of Absalom, Absalom hailed from Deep South places, but because both of them, in social science...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the cabin and puts a bullet through the handcuffed man's skull. Because the show had thus far split the narrative between 1995 and 2012, this scene is thick with dramatic...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...as the laws of Georgia would permit," and built her her own house, in which she resided with her husband, a free black man, with whom she had several children....
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of the Georgia House of Representatives would write that the flag, "is becoming to be [sic] the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. The...
Encountering COVID
...up on July 31. I knew that on August 1 I would have no house, no spouse, no job, and no kids to take care of. And the big critical...