Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...wages ("Tallapoosa County, Alabama: Civil War Pension"). But in the renewed onslaught of reaction in the South—where lynching of African American men and the rape of African American women became...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html. The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Libraries Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu/ark%3A/67531/metapth198631/m1/1/sizes. While Guzmán references Mexicans and Mexican Americans throughout the book, they play a peripheral role, irrelevant background characters in a story revolving around black-white...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...connection, as many Cuban-Americans are bilingual. Our conversation, originally conducted in Spanish, has been translated into English here. [Se puede leer la versión en español aquí.] Kiddo: One Playwright's Beginnings,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What are...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Women's Space, Queer Space: Communes, Landykes, and Queer Contact Zones in the Lesbian Feminist South The middle-aged man sitting in the row in front of me shoved his wife's arm...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...migratory patterns render it difficult for many African Americans to lay claim to just one regional identity, the South remains a place of great intrigue for a substantial number of...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...partnership with the College of Charleston's Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture and the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World Program (CLAW), LDHI's mission is to facilitate public...