Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...pipes of assorted sizes and dull metallic shades that emerges from a tangle of industrial units, always behind a chain link fence, and flies over the road like a highway...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...into an 'exotic' tropical fairyland linked to the Caribbean and available for purchase."2Capó, 1. "Miami," he writes, "is geographically situated in the U.S. South and tucked in the northern section...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal's...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...United States. Here, engraved on shiny Zimbabwe granite, are hundreds of names. You have come to this pier seeking this place, seeking what Heather Love calls an "emotional rescue," a...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...the United States (2012–2014). She directs the Creative Writing Program at Emory University. Many of her poems first appeared in various forms in Callaloo, a journal that for her serves...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...forty years to overturn the Brown decision. School Choice Programs in the United States, 2019. Map by Steve Suitts. Courtesy of the Southern Education Foundation. In the short run, the...
Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...systemic racism and economic inequality in the United States. Intended to reach a broad audience through television airings, distribution to high schools and colleges, and presentations by grassroots organizations and...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...William Faulkner. Among a host of contributions to any number of scholarly debates, Wise's crisp and clear articulation of Percy's views of love and sexuality will attract the attention of...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...of jazz, brass band, R&B, and funk (as well as blues and zydeco). What might all be lumped into the single category of "hiphop" in other parts of the United...