Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—the myth that black people were biologically, intellectually, and socially inferior to whites—these intellectuals sought to refute this myth through their writings and publications. By...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...installation begins in front of a home in the Old Fourth Ward. In the early 1960s, Styles briefly belonged to a black gay male social club called the Jolly Twelve....
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...time, a bit of a pariah. But it's not like he's the only Black queer person dating white guys. I think him feeling like a bit of a pariah has...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...kind of love story. But quickly, I began to think: what am I trying to say? What do I really care about? And, especially through writing the sixth chapter of...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...especially, of African Americans in the early twentieth century. In the late 1800s, a "colored" high school opened in LaFollette that served, at its peak, nearly one hundred African American...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Wild Planet, the group finally released Mesopotamia in early 1982, a David Byrne–produced recording that ended up being an EP because the band simply did not have enough new material....
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Stephen Bishop's notoriously flirtatious ways. As an 1843 piece by abolitionist and author Lydia Maria Child reports, Stephen "is extremely attentive, and peculiarly polite to the ladies" (419).17Lydia Maria Child,...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...makeup artists in most movies is provided by time itself, a commodity that seemingly stretches out endlessly before and behind us, but that no one has enough of, especially in...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...number slightly above the percentage of the Asian school-age population. Only white students and students with Asian ancestries were in private schools in numbers that exceeded or generally matched their...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...Robert F. Reid-Pharr's assertion that all identities are "essentially permeable and thus impure," and "all names (black, gay, man) are ultimately monuments to the impossibility of ever fully distinguishing self...