Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...World, Avante Theater, Miami, Florida, 2018. Directed by Mario Ernesto Sánchez. Photograph by and courtesy of Asela Torres. González Melo: El protagonista de En ningún lugar del mundo fue forzado...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
"Aint that Something?"
...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...
Image Credits
...public domain. Title screenshot from "The Rejected," originally aired KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot by Eric Solomon, March 2018. Title screenshot from "The Homosexuals," originally aired CBS television, March...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...full projects Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California,...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the "moral community" of border people. Some worked intentionally to evade criminal sanction, not revenue collection. Cattle rustlers in the late nineteenth century, along with bootleggers and drug runners...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...is another Mississippi Delta native. Today he works as a lawyer in Atlanta. Caffery, educated at the San Francisco Art Institute, is from southwest Louisiana’s Bayou country and returned home...
Place, Time, and Memory
Place, Time, and Memory Part 2: Works that reveal the passage of time and nature upon buildings and landscapes Part 3: Origins and intentions ofChristenberry's “Klan Tableau,” the creation of “Dream Buildings,”...
Quilting Conversation
...assistant in Photography and Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum and managed web design, publications, and other media initiatives at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. She is...