A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...after South Carolina attacked the federal fort in Charleston harbor and war ensued, the United States government and its federal courts oscillated between treating Confederates as "rebels" of an insurrection and "enemies"...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...the nuts and bolts of Oak Ridge's construction, so Freeman turns instead to its foundational mythology. Forty years before Oak Ridge's construction, "hillbilly prophet" John Hendrix foresaw the valley's transformation...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...Place of Tender Images: Paul Kwilecki's Four Decades of Photography of Decatur County, GA (forthcoming 2012) and Truths of the Matter: Traditions in Documentary Studies (forthcoming 2012). His photographs have...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...we had our club meetings, and so forth and so on. Most of these homes around here are equipped that way."4Henry Herbert Bankston, interview by author, April 12, 2012. A...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...la reforma sobre la inmigración a nivel federal fortalece los esfuerzos de los legisladores estatales y locales para tomar acción contra los inmigrantes no autorizados, y un número récord de...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...a PhD in American Studies and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her book Last Stand of the Louisiana Shrimpers is forthcoming from University of Mississippi Press in September 2022. Peopling Petrochemical America:...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Back was an effort to demonstrate that the image of the cannibal was projected onto Amerindians or Africans to dehumanize them.16Valérie Loichot,The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...LGBTQ community study, with its emphasis on space and place, that George Chauncey, Nan Alamilla Boyd, John Howard, among so many others, have set forth. This barely scratches the surface,...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...and her boyfriend/pimp Rosnay as they encounter the reality of selling their bodies in the effort to get out or escape, in this case, to the state of Nevada, where...