Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...unit) F/W – seen most often with animal rescue markings and is believed to indicate that Food and Water were left for pets. A, D – no one was found,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...roll came out in 1980, including Springsteen's The River, John Lennon's Double Fantasy, Pete Townshend's Empty Glass, David Bowie's Scary Monsters, Grace Jones' Warm Leatherette, Captain Beefheart's Doc at the...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies Part 3:...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...politics of Stein's wartime activities entitled, "Portrait of a National Fetish: Gertrude Stein's 'Introduction to the Speeches of Maréchal Pétain (1942)," which appeared in Modernism/modernity 3:3 (1996), 69-92. Barbara Will is...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...places on petitioners’ exercise of their religious beliefs.”5Bob Jones Univ. v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983). But barely a year after the Bob Jones decision, the Supreme Court slammed...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...prison; by the 1990s, the incarceration rate had more than doubled, making African Americans seven times as likely as whites to do jail time.5Christopher J. Lyons and Becky Pettit, “Compounded...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...the audience, especially from Bradd Shore, Lynn Linnemeier and Kevin Sipp and am grateful for insights into ritual and reenactment from Pete Richardson and Rick Parmentier. I also am grateful...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the living from the eight winds and flung petals of the compass. And I won't assume, much as I've known it certain all along, that I'll never see Grandma again,...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...his searing list of "SAD-BUT-TRUE ASPECTS of Zora" which includes a range of inflammatory monikers including "THE SELF-STYLED 'PET DARKEY' . . . NO RACE CHAMPION . . . THE...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...