Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami from its early days as a "queer frontier" to how it sustained a reputation as "a site where one could transgress gender and sexual norms."5Capó, 4. The 1950s saw...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...have found a dearth of successful public black protests in the South, not because they have not looked for them, but because the repercussions for African Americans who acted openly...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...frontier lawyer and land-speculator to military commander and national politician and details Ross's life as a Cherokee merchant, slave-owning planter, and tribal leader. Inskeep describes the state of Georgia's campaign...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...(99). The figure of the cosmic cowboy helped whites who identified with the romantic symbolism of Anglo-Texas's frontier past to navigate a shifting landscape that included the political and cultural...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...labor, and open commerce," writes Karp, "these, for the proslavery South, were the lineaments of global modernity in the mid-nineteenth century" (169–170). Amid the domestic crises of the 1840s and...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Black and Poor Americans records, SCLC records, MARBL, Emory University. SCLC argued that traditional principles and tactics of nonviolent direct action could be successfully brought to bear under any number...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...creatively examining real and imagined spaces and places to address questions of spatial justice. We provide a public, open access platform for work engaged in nuanced discussions of race, space,...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...work-in-progress that would benefit from open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Please send proposal via email to disc@emory.edu by 5pm on February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...moves literature away from loneliness. It proposes creation in a team and in direct contact with the spectator. Both questions are very attractive to me. The idea that writing never...