Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...connection, as many Cuban-Americans are bilingual. Our conversation, originally conducted in Spanish, has been translated into English here. [Se puede leer la versión en español aquí.] Kiddo: One Playwright's Beginnings,...
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"...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
The Liminal Site
...with a Chinese or Japanese provenance—daphnes, gardenias, camellias, lacecap hydrangeas. (While there were several evergreen azaleas already on the property, however, I was not tempted to add to their number.)...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...bounce, tracing the music's birth, development, and connection to the long trajectory of poor and working-class African American music-making in the city. In doing so, he offers not only a...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...a contribution to American literature or, alternately, as an expression of the regional or national distinctiveness of the South (61). He contends that the aims of antebellum southern nationalists were...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South by Berkley Hudson.4Examples of books and articles on some of the local photographers mentioned in this review essay include, Julia Sully,...