"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...by interracial organizations? Does it unintentionally feed cycles of hatred and retribution, raising the possibility of new acts of violence even as it polarizes those who ought to be in...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...that they, all of them, came out in new ways. Q: I'm struck by your comments that you were there with Jheri in Belgium during her gender confirmation surgery. That's...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...was acquired from Joseph E. Whitehead of New Orleans. Mason ran a school within the Black church that after 1844 was known as Mount Zion Methodist. If Nannie was a...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Ki" (The Problems of the Dalits) in a major Hindi daily published from New Delhi.2Samasyaen Daliton ki (The Problems of the Dalits), Rashtriya Sahara (New Delhi, India), 2000–2002. The public exchange that...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...began interviewing people in tandem, exploring a place that was new and strange for Lindsey and more or less familiar and invisible for me. This emerging situation began to blur...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
...Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World, and many other books. For his work, he has received the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the American...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...of the gender politics of True Detective: "Cool Story, Bro: The Shallow Deep Talk of 'True Detective,'" the New Yorker, March 3, 2014, http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2014/03/03/140303crte_television_nussbaum. He fails, loses his marriage and...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...a time of heady optimism. Many believed anything was possible, even progress. The movement had its most visible roots in New York and San Francisco, but after it flared in...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...2014, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/01/steve-mcqueen-armond-white-controversy.html. In a statement to the Hollywood Reporter, White refers to himself as "the strongest voice that exists in contemporary criticism," and claims that several influential New York film...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...a family of apparently fairly well-to-do drapers. He studied for the ministry at the University of Glasgow, emigrated to America in 1750, and became a protégé of an important New...