Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...they lived with a coterie of other young people. They threw raucous queer parties and housed folks who didn't have anywhere else to go. A few blocks down the street...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...electric fences and armed guards. Valerie Steel, a former Oak Ridge resident, described "total" segregation: "Blacks lived day in and day out under oppressive conditions. There were separate communities, cafeterias,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
Review Dolly home, Winter's Bone, 2010. Debra Granik’s film Winter’s Bone (2010) tells the story of seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly, big sister and stand-in parent to two younger siblings. She is...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Review In this meticulously researched book, Katherine M. B. Osburn follows the history of the Mississippi Choctaws from the Antebellum era to the "Choctaw Miracle" of the 1970s, when this...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Lake Erie, caught fire. Oil slicks and industrial wastes from innumerable factories and refineries upstream had left the water so polluted that fires had become a frequent occurrence. This particular...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...husband. Holly Jackson's American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation has helped ground my teaching in Introduction to American Studies. I was honored to read Valérie Loichot's Water Graves:...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Epps. Viewers numbed by years of cheap thrills need a film like this to remind them that horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...changes. Drawn by abundant natural resources and state governments promising low-wage and non-unionized labor and cheap (or free) land, military installations sprang up and expanded, and a host of industrial...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
Introduction Percent of "Yes" vote in T-SPLOST referendum by precinct, August 2012, Atlanta Regional Commission. "We took on the governor, the lieutenant governor, the mayor, big business and slick political...