Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...generation who came of age during Jim Crow. Reed writes with a purpose—not to chronicle his own pivotal events, hardships, or personal demons, nor to proclaim general truths. Instead, he...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...and light specific, and also frost and winter sleep, conditions of particular year, as every instance comes just once with mix of mineral and grease, what Hopkins chose to call...
Deep Ellum Blues
...to mark subtle social distinctions in the areas that developed along its path. The most affluent regions of North Dallas were almost always located to the west of the expressway:...
Image Credits
...Suit, Faceless Man. Painting by Sandy Solomon. 1950 Toni Home Perm Advert, April 5, 2011. Photograph by Flickr user Tiffany Terry. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Batesville Casket Company...
Image Credits
...Davis / Just Out. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. "In Memory of all Puerto Ricans," panel from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt Display, Organization of American States Art Museum of the...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...swooshing forward, back, upside down, and he cried Aera! waving his sword, until the operator asked him to please keep all swords inside the car. He was a good sport,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...those of us who work in the educational system are like all the other workers of the world— including having the product of our labor, in this case our intellectual...
The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...behind (22). Calhoun Monument, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1915–1930. Postcard by unknown creator. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Charleston's antebellum history as the capital of a slave society and a...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...spheres and the development of queer subcultures Urban/rural and digital: gentrification, shifts in LGBTQ+ enclaves, and the importance of digital apps/dating in queer space and practice Lesbian, Transgender, and Bisexual...