Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Bayamesa we find the authentic woman who encourages all but also the idea of suicide as a social issue emerges, when today there are more and more suicides of young...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...as their words spoke the story of black lung disease and the physical toll of hard-labor jobs. Conditioned as a white woman to thinking of my embodiment primarily in terms...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...Chesnutt and Murfree as a black man and a white woman. (Chesnutt, a light skinned African American, was often assumed to be a white writer. Murfree published her early fiction...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...a woman. The local neighborhood association puts up signs that read, "A Past with a Future." As I see it, the neighborhood's past is rich with gay history, and the...
The Place of Appalachia
...Globalization in/of Appalachian Studies," Appalachian Journal 37 (Spring–Summer 2010): 286–300. Space-time compression in Appalachia more likely takes form as an exhausted working-class woman, such as the pregnant Latina poultry worker...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of subordination in a way that was interpreted as 'getting fresh' with a white woman."2Reed, 12. "If bristling at Jim Crow's injustices were especially prominent in my consciousness," Reed writes,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...for charity, and exhibits including the "Women in Photography 20th Anniversary Tea Time Exhibit," "photo l.a. 2002" and "Photo Impact" in Los Angeles, and a two-woman exhibit at the Loft...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...City: Crucible of the Latina South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 10. A lady watches a woman rolling a cigar in a factory, Tampa, Florida, 1963. Photograph...