Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...turning Stonewall's rebellion into art. The Sweet Gum Head is where Atlanta earned its reputation for top-flight female impersonation. It's where Atlanta's drag came out of the closet. Before RuPaul...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/cph.3b47842. Equally impressive was the intellectual work of Mary Church Terrell, who in 1907 published "Peonage in the United States: The Convict Lease System and...
Buffalo Mountain Windfarm, Anderson County, Tennessee, 2005
...eighteen turbines and generates a total capacity of twenty-nine megawatts, which is enough to provide power to about 3,800 homes. It is the only windfarm in the southeast United States....
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...representing a cure for AIDS. The sculpture intended to memorialize those affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic that led to 573,800 reported AIDS cases in the United States between 1981 and...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...sky, "Well, once there was just dark. You ask me, the light's winning."19Cary Joji Fukunaga, "Form and Void," True Detective (HBO, March 9, 2014), Episode 8. ) as a cheap,...
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...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...for cheap melodrama, but the point gets across: Mason loves and respects his father, but he isn't about to pretend that the past didn't play out the way it did...
Mississippi Delta
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...