Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009
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...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of Fermor's classic.10Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Introduction," in The Traveller's Tree: A Journey through the Caribbean Islands (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950, 2011), ix–x. The genealogical link is apparent....
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...they didn’t get paid very much.” The SOB Band demonstrates the power, excitement, sexuality, and humor of classic Chicago blues. They were not just another act recycling familiar material to...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...doing so, although the privilege of whiteness carried with it the ability to traverse physical, sexual, and social boundaries. In addition to race, differentials of class, gender, and sexuality further...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...understandings of citizenship and empire, as well as racial and class privilege. Mckiernan-González's work considers the medical politics of place, and the ways responses to epidemics reveal societal understandings of...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...mobs of White men numbering in the thousands chased, beat, and massacred Blacks on the streets of downtown Atlanta. This was the bloody response to erroneous reports of Black men...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...she is incarcerated, the recommendations of the parole board, or the number of open beds at the local re-entry facility. 92% of prisoners in Alabama are male, so most of...