"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...dollars annually to the city's local economy.8"2015 Military Economic Impact Study" (San Antonio, TX: Department of Government and Public Affairs, accessed July 1, 2021), https://www.sanantonio.gov/Portals/0/Files/OMA/EconImpact/2015SanAntonioMilitaryEconomicImpact.pdf?ver=2017-02-15-142835-893. Although contemporary San Antonio's diversified...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...often exist alongside one another instead of in opposition. Additionally, the subtext of race in Loving is not simply black and white. The film implicitly asks how can you tell...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...and film versions of Winter’s Bone. In the earlier novel various members of the Dolly family also appear as characters, but there they conform fairly closely to comic stereotype, as...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...most notorious gadfly, is the most prominent and caustic critic of McQueen's nearly universally lauded film. White's opinions aren't frivolous and uniformed, and it isn't simple trolling when he calls...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...and disbursement. This allowed us to move funds directly and rapidly to people in need and has been crucial to our ability to substantively support people in a timely way....
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...voluntarily comply with allotment. The southeastern tribes were against allotment and especially against the dissolution of tribal government that was part of the process. The US federal policy idea behind...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...done up to this point: show us real aging, real maturation.4Obviously, many films have sequels (and prequels), but most aren't purposefully playing with the (dis)continuity of time the way Linklater's...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...on. It bears multiple viewings. There are more things you can find, not only related to the South but to global capitals' mediation of "Southernness," especially Londoners, especially film and...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...as any professional group, medical practitioners have contributed to the construction of African Americans as physically, intellectually, and mentally inferior to white people.2Rana A. Hogarth, Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...coverage. Media historians, too, have reviewed hundreds of hours of television news film and found it visually uninteresting. Television, some argue, mainly followed elite opinion; it did not lead. See...