Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...piece, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, who received a PhD in economics from Harvard University, asks, "How many American men are gay?" While this question is notoriously difficult to answer in any definitive...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...York: Oxford University Press, 1979) George Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup: The Making of the Black Community (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1972); Lawrence Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South by Berkley Hudson.4Examples of books and articles on some of the local photographers mentioned in this review essay include, Julia Sully,...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...a contribution to American literature or, alternately, as an expression of the regional or national distinctiveness of the South (61). He contends that the aims of antebellum southern nationalists were...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...motif of water breaching signifies the larger perplexity of "rootedness" and fixity for all African Americans with ancestors forcibly brought to American shores. How can anyone find stasis out of...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...of mapmaking and misunderstand the information maps convey. At the 2015 American Association of Geographers conference in Chicago, geographer Janet Speake asserted that as the public gains access to robust...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Mine disaster. His images of laid-off and out-of-work miners suggest current tensions between miners and coal company management. Kanawha River Coal Load Out Facility. Montgomery, WV, 2005. Mining and the...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...help plan, build, or manage such projects. As a vehicle for examining America's transportation and modernization politics at a key moment of the country's rail-to-auto transition, the Dixie Highway project...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...poorest people? It happens because the economy here has revolved around the concentrated ownership of one resource—coal—for more than a hundred years. Denny Tyler, Native plants manage to survive on...