Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
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...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...distribution and have generated wealth. But the consequences of those decisions, and others, especially those connected with "selling" Memphis by offering typically southern industrial recruitment incentives, marketing cheap land and...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Pastoral Maya, the network is made up of over forty local Maya Catholic groups in states throughout the country including California, Florida, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Nebraska, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Photographer. Gauvin’s first post-Katrina images are among the earliest included in the exhibition and convey an on-the-scene immediacy. Stewart Harvey, Portland, Oregon. Photographer. Harvey had begun a photography series on...
California Creek, North Carolina
NCDOT boundary marker, California Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drill rig, California Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT geologist Jody Kuhne identifying springs in...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...by smartphone apps. As John Walker writes, "LGBTQ people have long used digital spaces as a means of connecting with others like themselves . . . Scruff et al. are...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...turns out, the transfer of McDonald's son to Dinsmoor's care was not unique. In the decades following the US Revolution, a number of American Indian women and men and elite US whites...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...