Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (2003): 403–417. It added fuel to many churches’ fire in maintaining and extending their...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...studies that question the extent to which empathy can counter racial prejudice—such as philosopher Stephen T. Asma's contention that human capacity for empathy does not easily extend beyond an individual's...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...for any immoral use.' By forcing Blacks to live in overcrowded areas, racially restrictive covenants 'imposed social disintegration, social pathology, and personal ill health on them' (47). As head of...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...can all have enough." Charles Reagan Wilson, editorial board: I have just finished Albert Camus's The Plague, which I had never read. It's a profound book. And his portrayal of...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...first publication, a portfolio entitled 14 Pictures, fifteen images from William Eggleston's Guide, and seven additional images taken between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. All are dye-transfer prints, their...
A City Divided
...may not have occurred to whites to demand black residential segregation; after all, social codes and local and state ordinances controlled much of the interaction between whites and blacks already...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...federal levels, have contributed to the discourse of sickle cell disease (SCD) as a black disease, despite a prevailing cultural ideology of racial mixture. Drawing on ethnography and oral histories from...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...local popularity just as the city's black neighborhoods were slipping into the chaos of the crack era, and DC became known as the nation's "murder capital." With little to no...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...southern studies alongside studies of immigration to the South, highlighting their disciplinary, methodological, empirical, and political differences. Although these fields have yet to speak to each other in sustained fashion,...