The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...understandings of citizenship and empire, as well as racial and class privilege. Mckiernan-González's work considers the medical politics of place, and the ways responses to epidemics reveal societal understandings of...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...had a lot of things I wanted and needed to say. I've always been hyperaware that this history is meaningful, and in very different ways, to many different people—past and...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...from a rather different sense of learning in a wide variety of ways in the community and environment of one’s birth (kith and kin, human and nonhuman neighbors, physical surroundings).3I...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...pictures show the surfaces of the visible world, while black-and-white images reveal its structure, the way the world is put together — or, in this case, the ways it came...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...on Native elegy, he has offered suggestions about ways some of his own cosmopolitan readings have included nationalist understandings. For three decades he has passionately advocated on behalf of Native...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...where subjects do not produce "survival modalities," defined by Jafa as "the ways that black people have been conditioned to act or appear in film—to sit, stare, or talk in...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...southern radicals "came to believe that the exceptional nature of the Constitution had fallen by the wayside" (220). Ultimately, throughout the Secession Winter of 1860–1861, they repeatedly declared that the...