Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...poet whose work critiqued the Revolution and its leaders in his moment, 1967–68, leading to his arrest, torture, and subsequent exile to the United States in 1980. Padilla worked many...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...of the striking miners are African American, and he felt a strong spirit of solidarity across racial lines. The miners Dixon spoke with were upbeat, ready to keep fighting for...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11, 1961. Screenshot...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 113. The trail is covered in fallen leaves and enshrouded by the endless overhang of trees transitioning from late...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...of these colorful hand-painted signs speaks of persistent creativity and the spirit of small business. The sheer volume of these signs in the city affirms the popularity of this mode...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...Civil War Centennial Center, Downtown Richmond, 1962. Courtesy of the Valentine Richmond History Center. No other place embodied that particular spirit of 1961 quite as well as Richmond, the former...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...and the US South, 1997–2007." From Bradley Hanson's "The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee." In addition to essays, photo essays,...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...