Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...are doing and lose the course of the action, they lose the written synthesis. It is true that I have had some unique experiences—I would say mystical—during writing itself. It...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...diving into a swimming pool with a haunting narration from literary scholar Hortense Spillers. Without equivocation, Spillers warns, "I know that we are going to lose this gift of black...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...potential consequences of the sweeping revolutions in France and nearby Haiti. Meeting of White Men and Indians, General Oglethorpe meeting Creek Nation. Print originally published in John Lossing's An Outline...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...but once the trial began, gave harsh condemnation of the South and its people and institutions. Such subtlety often gets lost. Worse, Mace too easily picks up the moralistic tone...
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...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...survey, they had a discrete number of questions that they asked across different neighborhoods, they made a map of it—this was exactly what we’d do with structured data, and they’d...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html. Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. © Richard Misrach. For me, the petrochemical culture of southeastern Louisiana is epitomized by the pipe rack, one of which photographer Richard Misrach captures in plate...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...the Los Angeles Times Book Award in History. Wood was co-guest editor with Susan V. Donaldson of Mississippi Quarterly's 2008 "Special Issue on Lynching and American Culture," and the editor...