Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...traces of this universe. Gunnels: Lucía from Nevada and María Luisa from Bayamesa really move me because of the way they confront their worlds, hostile worlds, but always with persistence...
Submission Guidelines
...maximum word requirements for interview submissions. Videos Videos use visual—as opposed to textual or rhetorical—techniques to advance a critical argument. The three types of videos we generally publish are Ethnographic:...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Orleans played a central role in raising the issue made news as far away as New York—where headlines seized on the city's "fight to save school children."49"War on Hashish Smoking...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...or modern conveniences or jobs behind for the seeming purity of rural areas, trading the modern for the "exotic," "abandoning the centers of capitalist development for some 'elsewhere' that keeps...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
..."danger spot" of the world, she denounced these fertile nations as "destroyers of our civilization through their ruthless method of waging arrogant warfare against innocent, peaceful peoples."5"News from Margaret Sanger,"...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...princess was crowned and greeted by the crowd. La Fiesta de Santa Eulalia. Video by Wiliam Brown and Mary Odem, 2011. This Maya Catholic celebration was an unusual sight in...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...has received critical acclaim in part for its temporal and global scope—ancient Greece, England, Russia and Uganda receive specific attention—but also for his sensitivity both to disability and Latinx experience,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...en Guatemala con sus nuevos sitios de establecimiento. El texto fue escrito por Mary Odem y el video realizado por William Brown y Mary Odem. Essay in English “Vivir en...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...but sends her liquor-addicted dead father in his gasoline-addicted-repurposed-Chevy truck-made-into-a-boat off into another world. Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth Century Fox, 2012. Hushpuppy's cry keeps echoing: "Momma...