"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...suggests that they go to the bar, which they do.35Weathers, Shitkickers, 44. In early 1960s San Antonio, the bar remains a necessary distraction and needed escape. Weathers's prefatory words to...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...inscape, or individuation, sounds so close to terror you'd confuse the two, as if the finest and the rarest blend would come with just a hint of fear or pain,...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...by Francis Nicholson. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, loc.gov/resource/g3860.ct000734/. Information connecting the peoples of this this colonial landscape also pushed them apart—most apparently when the...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...asks that we consider the space of the plantation not only as a physical landscape of endless rows of cotton stalks but also as spaces constructed by and in service...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...indulgent, generous even, in their embrace of someone at least proposing opera with a difference. In addition to historicizing Imoinda as art project, I cannot escape in the course of...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...There have been a lot of changes in the cityscape since the New Orleans guide was first released. Upriver from the French Quarter the skyline has become mini-Manhattanized, anchored by...