"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
Introduction In the early morning hours of January 10, 1939, more than fifteen hundred men, women and children piled their meager belongings along US Highways 60 and 61 in the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
Introduction Counties in the Appalachian Region. Map created by the Appalachian Regional Commission, October 8, 2008, arc.gov/images/appregion/AppalachianRegionCountiesMap.pdf. Of countless images over the last century, attempts to frame Appalachia's landscape and...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...Supplementing the Lonesome Cowboys installation is a theatrical screening of the film, along with two related Warhol films: Horse, Warhol's previous Western, and Nude Restaurant, which features stars from Lonesome...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
William Brown, Emory University Mary Odem, Emory University Ana María Diaz Burgos, Traductor Published: 12 July 2011 William Brown and Mary Odem, Niños bailando en el día de la celebración...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...and western history, and whiteness studies. As the author notes in his conclusion, Fighting Their Own Battles is important because black-brown relations (as well as their relations with whites) continue...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...scrappers-over, say, Athens, which just happens to be the birthplace of the Olympics, not to mention of Western civilization, and the locale where one might look to plant the Centennial...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...occupational lung disease unit at Northwestern University and frequently testifies before Congress on miners' behalf.6Dr. Cohen testified during the hearings on black lung, "Breathless and Betrayed." See "What is MHSA...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
Introduction I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...its first Black mayor, Maynard Jackson. He then returned north where he has spent most of the last forty years—primarily at Yale, Northwestern University, and the University of Pennsylvania—teaching and...