Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...that the majority of the students in that seminar were from Europe. In reading and reflecting about their questions, I re-lived my experience as a graduate student at the University...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...the halls of representation or rendered a static character there, to imagine a world where queer lives, politics, and possibilities are representable in their complexity."71José Muñoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...continued to live in the area.4Newton County, Georgia—created December 24, 1821, from Henry, Jasper, and Walton Counties—was based in three ceded Native territories. Under the terms of the 1805 Treaty...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...of every human wo [sic] and misery."37"Death of John M. Barrett, Esq." Perhaps because Barrett never lived to see a resolution to his case and died while still professing his...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...comprehend the horrendous injustice of slavery, the kidnapping of millions of people from Africa, the stealing of their lives from them, and then the theft of their labor for hundreds...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...About the Author Emma Lirette, originally from Chauvin, Louisiana, lives outside Atlanta with her wife and two daughters. She works as a User Experience Researcher in social media and holds...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...a "horror show" at the expense of portraying the inner lives of slaves and the relationships they forged under totalitarian circumstances, but in doing so it does not ally itself...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...has Toklas say) she grew up. Then to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for college, to Baltimore for medical school, then back to the Paris where she had lived with her family as...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...the anger; see what actions we must take in our own lives, where we live every day, to bring about social justice. In welcoming her tonight, I dare to borrow...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...figure who lived in a realm beyond reach and is now sealed away in an otherworld. What could be more detached and isolated from the lived history of Jim Crow...