"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...loneliness. We end our conversation remembering and honoring the forty-nine lives lost at the Pulse nightclub shooting in central Florida. Convoluted Beginnings: Heterize, Placebo, "Closeted" Convoluted #2, Orlando, Florida, 2016....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...was the "Florida" of Blacks and people of color; much of the same anti-Blackness and colonialism created the very conditions for Florida to become the "Florida" of the homosexual. I...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Florida, May 15, 2010. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user inazakira. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. The author alongside Tennessee Williams, Gay and Lesbian Visitor's Center, Key West, Florida, March...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...2008. Photograph by and courtesy of Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson. Place reverberates with the history of its unique past. "Place stays, not only in Rememory," writes Toni Morrison, "but out there in...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(2019): 4–22. All these models of queer territory posit collective understandings of place that transcend the social boundaries of queer identity groups. All three authors also reference cruising, but offer...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...The author's choice of Middle Florida makes sense considering the book's time frame: 1820-1920. From the Territorial era through the Great War (the other great war), Middle Florida commanded the...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...recounts the story of how he came to Mississippi: Mississippi . . . I think God put it in my path. I was in Florida picking oranges. One afternoon I...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...old questions about social inequality and the regional history of investments and expectations for public education and economic prosperity. Debates continue about how best to allocate and utilize place-specific local...