How I Shed My Skin
...as teaching the worst lessons. There, racist discourse flowed between adults, between Sunday School and worship services, as well as mid-week meetings, at both the Baptist and Methodist churches he...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...and ankles, as we were dragged along towards an unfathomable fate. The next week I developed the film in the dark room at school. My favorite image, which I submitted...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...2014. Photograph courtesy of the author. You have come to Key West for "gay spring break," an island-week specifically designed for gay people in a sea of straight decadence along...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...evening, some of whom half-jokingly spoke of the incident as the beginning of a new "local tradition." This process was cemented the next weekend at the Poland Convention when an...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...current organizational structures of contemporary universities. What we say and do here at Emory University this week should ultimately be read as a message to our colleagues across the United...
A City Divided
...and black occupancy increased, elite whites became distressed about more African American homes, which they equated with urban disorder. From 1899 to 1910, the number of households within the declared...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...occasional houseguest dared disturb her. Upon encouraging Hester to come up for a long weekend, O'Connor writes: "Bring some work you want to do or something you want to read....
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. The 2012 United States presidential election results have led mapmakers and illustrators over the past week to search for new ways to...