Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...a mixed or largely gay clientele helped to foster social networks and heighten a sense of group consciousness. And like other urban spaces in Cold War America, Atlanta bore the...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of The Florida Guide, part of an "American Guide" series designed to "hold up a mirror to America." The gig provided her with the opportunity to sharpen her ethnographic game,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...candidate: "These people aren't against brown or Black people. They just don't like the way Democrats are running the country."10Michael H. Keller and David D. Kirkpatrick, "Their America Is Vanishing....
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...cities and towns. They are visible in Georgian-style post offices, and in huge train station murals splashed with the autumnal colors of rustic America bringing in the crop. The Great...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...routes are depicted by the quilting lines connecting Africa and the United States. —Gwen Magee A slave ship in full sail splitting the waters of the Atlantic evokes the Middle...
The Dirt Eaters
...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...
Frank Willis
...called "civic," the things you had to know. Today in some way I somehow care that Frank Willis lives with his mother, without employ, was arrested for stealing a $12...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...form, the images imply that such problems may continue to be critical today. Southern Spaces will be posting images from the FSA/OWI Color Photographs collection, with captions, to our Featured...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...due to both budgetary constraints and lack of prosecutorial resources. Today, approximately twenty cold cases remain open and unresolved. While one re-opened case has resulted in a successful prosecution, the...