Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...walking or biking are the preferred methods of transit. You check in to your bungalow and walk down Duval Street, the main thoroughfare. You see Aqua Nightclub and Bourbon St....
Letter: Blues
...bought. At home, there is a violet, 3-D moon And pachysandra vines for me to prune, And old men with checkered shirts, suspenders, Paper bags and Cutty bottles, menders Of...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...like shadows into the last of the soft morning sun. A man cracks his knuckles as he leaves, another checks his head to be sure of the billed cap he...
The Liminal Site
...books checked out from the Birmingham Botanical Gardens library. When I started, I had four or five general ideas, each of which stayed with me through the process, and which...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50 smellin’ like crackers and peanut...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...marriage gone flat, and a job checking out groceries, struggles with cocaine addiction. Everything seems newly rosy when she enters rehab and falls in love with a male nurse, until...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Review In the aftermath of the Great Recession, cities and metropolitan regions were often portrayed as (and often were) spaces of economic turmoil and social upheaval. From December 2007 to...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...enough money to support themselves with ample food, clothes, and shelter. "All these charges," Williams wrote in 1988, "are deducted from a check or cash payment that is continually shrinking...