En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Myles Cullen. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in public domain. To tell his story, Lewis mainly relies on a small coterie of outside experts, most prominently a retired Sandia National...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Windsor, Ohio, in the far northeastern corner of the border state, near Lake Erie. He was indentured as a servant from his childhood until he turned twenty-one, working in brutal...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...dashboards for data visualization. Certainly, factors largely beyond CDC's control had major impacts on the agency's performance. Besides the virus itself, CDC had to contend with (1) a coterie of federal...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...trapped in her cheap pastel poster. Maybe he'd say his life was like a brand-new house fallen in on its foundation. In thirty years the kudzu covers it, and no...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
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...