Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...artists and writers? How have diverse forms of media carried, shaped, and spread political ideas and religious beliefs related to Covid? What are representative symbols and sites of this pandemic...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...over eight thousand longshoremen worked along the New Orleans riverfront. Hauling everything from bales of cotton and rubber to armored vehicles, this small army of men ensured the steady flow...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shooting pictures of southern rural poverty, and in 1970, the want remains. This is not a very promising place to make a life, no matter what the woman is carrying...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...January 8, 2016, http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2016/01/08/herman-j-russell-s-old-home-hits-the-market.html; Kimberly Turner,"House Envy: Andrew Young reminisces on Herman J. Russell's 1963 Home," Atlanta Magazine, January 20, 2016, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/homeandgarden/house-envy-andrew-young-reminisces-on-herman-j-russell-1963-home/. The founder of H.J. Russell & Co. was...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...to save his beloved Jack Russell terriers. We did our first video shoot with Gainey in the spring of 2010. At the outset, we didn't know what we were doing...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...isn’t unique in this, and an exception to this rule is hard for me to imagine. I was born and raised in the part of Florida that I would say...
Encountering COVID
...afraid. I also know now from somebody I met during the interviews that action is the antidote to fear. Getting in the motorhome and doing a fast run helped with...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...sold and that she is running away to save her child" from Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read together, the "loyalist" plantation romance and the "fugitive" slave narrative speak to one another...