Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...of the gender politics of True Detective: "Cool Story, Bro: The Shallow Deep Talk of 'True Detective,'" the New Yorker, March 3, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/03/03/140303crte_television_nussbaum. He fails, loses his marriage and...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...shift is evidenced in our present moment by such organizations as Creative Time, the Public Art Fund, and Flux Projects. Based in New York, Creative Time states that it strives...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...a time of heady optimism. Many believed anything was possible, even progress. The movement had its most visible roots in New York and San Francisco, but after it flared in...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...usually wouldn't be doing. I ended up keeping the fire in the ring that night. A year or two later, at that location or at the new grounds site, I...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...and regional identities of Atlanta itself in the coverage of the national and international media. The festivities of the Opening Ceremonies, reported Jere Longman of the New York Times, were...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Remarks on the Senate Floor Against Lifting of Cuba Travel Restrictions," Robert Mendendez, July 16, 2010, http://www.menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/menendez-remarks-on-the-senate-floor-against-lifting-of-cuba-travel-restrictions. Views like Menendez's reflect an inconsistency in US foreign policy when it comes...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and edited two poetry anthologies [The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries (2004) and Lyric Postmodernisms (2008)]. Courtesy of The University of Pittsburgh Press. Shepherd met his partner, Robert Philen, in Ithaca,...
New Orleans Ward 10, Precinct 11, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...