McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Muscogee Creek Nation reservation in Oklahoma, 2021. Map by Stephanie Bryan. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Prior to McGirt, the Creek Nation had what we call Indian Country, a legal term...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...the passage of time—known informally as the Before Trilogy and comprised of the films Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013)—follows the relationship of Céline (Julie Delpy)...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...material to get. You couldn't just walk into Jupiter and say, "I am a filmmaker and I want to do a film about immigration," for someone to come forward with...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
A General Note to Readers: I have intended this essay to be read and the films viewed together. Rather than narrate the films, I have presented an analysis of them...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...been staged globally, from the Argos Theater in Havana to Manchester, England's HOME Theater, to the most recent translation to Czech, with production in Prague set for fall 2021. The...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...al checo, con la producción en Praga programada para el otoño de 2021. La trilogía, que incluye Nevada y Talco (la segunda y tercera entrega), cubre un lapso de tres...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...that the Court's conservative majority is likely poised to follow the lead of Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who in July 2021 wrote the Court's majority opinion reinterpreting the Voting Rights...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...white capital. The film's rags and wastelands—its killing fields—become powerful emblems of the Southland's (and our nation's) commitment to toxic inequality. But something else rages in this film; it refuses...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...future is my transitioning body and the pink, white, and blue flag I fly in the driveway. The author's home in Roanoke, Virginia, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...